Microsoft Replaces DALL-E With MAI-Image in Office
Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI DALL-E image generation in PowerPoint and Bing with its own MAI-Image-2.5. Here is what changes for creators.
Microsoft Mage: 4B Open Image Model Beats Giants
Microsoft's Mage Team released Mage-Flow, a 4B open-weights image generation and editing model that it says matches or beats open systems five to eight times its size, with a Turbo variant that renders 1024px images in 0.59 seconds.
Microsoft Open-Sources Windows Agent Framework at Build
Microsoft announces Windows Agent Framework and a new Agent Store at Build 2026, enabling AI agents to control desktop applications natively.
Project Polaris Replaces GPT-4 in GitHub Copilot Aug 2026
Microsoft unveiled Project Polaris at Build 2026: an in-house mixture-of-experts coding model that replaces GPT-4 Turbo as the GitHub Copilot default in August 2026.
Microsoft Launches MAI v2 Media Suite at Build 2026
Microsoft used its Build 2026 keynote on June 2 to ship a refreshed MAI media stack: MAI-Image-2.5 with editing, MAI-Voice-2 for TTS, and MAI-Transcribe-1.5 for ASR.
MAI-Code-1-Flash: Microsoft's New Coding Model in Copilot
Microsoft used its Build 2026 keynote on June 2 to ship MAI-Code-1-Flash, an in-house coding model that is live today inside the GitHub Copilot model picker for Free, Pro, Pro+, and Max tiers.
Microsoft MAI Foundry vs Nano Banana 2, FLUX.2: Compared
MAI-Image-2.5 hits No. 3 on Arena and edits past Nano Banana 2. We compare the new MAI Foundry stack against Google, BFL, Ideogram, and ElevenLabs on price, identity preservation, and bundled-stack ROI.
Microsoft MAI-Thinking-1 Tops Claude Sonnet in User Evals
Microsoft's MAI-Thinking-1, a 35B sparse MoE with 256k context, tops Claude Sonnet 4.6 in blind evaluations and matches Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro.
Project Solara: Microsoft's Android OS for AI Agents
Microsoft unveiled Project Solara on June 2, 2026, a new Android-based platform built for AI agent interactions rather than traditional app navigation.
Microsoft Releases MAI Image, Voice, and Transcribe Models
Microsoft shipped three creator-focused AI models on June 2: MAI-Image-2.5 beats Gemini on Arena benchmarks, MAI-Transcribe-1.5 runs 5x faster with 43-language support, and MAI-Voice-2 clones voices from short audio samples across 15 languages.
MAI-Image-2.5 vs Imagen 4 vs GPT-Image-2 vs FLUX vs Recraft
Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 hit No. 3 on Arena. We compare it against Imagen 4 Ultra, GPT-Image-2, FLUX.2 max, and Recraft V3 on five axes that matter for production creative work.
Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files: What to Do Now
PromptArmor disclosed that Microsoft Copilot Cowork can be tricked into exfiltrating files from a user's tenant through a chained prompt-injection attack on SharePoint.
Microsoft Edge Copilot Gets Podcast Generation and Writing
Microsoft Edge May 2026 update adds AI podcast generation from browser tabs, Writing Assistant, Vision on mobile, and Copilot long-term memory.
Microsoft MAI-Image-2-Efficient Cuts AI Image Cost 41%
Microsoft launched MAI-Image-2-Efficient on April 14, 2026, a distilled variant of its flagship image model with 41 percent cheaper output tokens and 22 percent faster generation on H100 hardware.
Microsoft Launches 3 In-House AI Models, Reducing OpenAI Dependence
Microsoft launched three in-house AI models on April 2, reducing its dependence on OpenAI. MAI-Image-2, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Transcribe-1 cover image generation, text-to-speech, and speech recognition.