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Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2 enters the top three AI image generators in the world

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2 debuts at #3 on Arena.ai's text-to-image leaderboard, behind Google and OpenAI and begins rolling out ...
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Microsoft Launches MAI-Image-2 Text-to-Image Model—And It's Better Than Expected

Microsoft's AI image generator offers impressive realism and text rendering, but strict content limits and 1:1-only output hold it back.
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AI Facial Recognition Is Denying Food To Pregnant Women Across India

India’s 50-year-old welfare programme now uses AI to decide who gets food. Across Anganwadi centres, pregnant women and new ...

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2 cracks the top 3, challenging Google and OpenAI

Image-1 in late 2025, Microsoft has now unveiled MAI-Image-2, the second generation of its in-house AI image model with significant improvements.

Microsoft makes massive leap in AI image leaderboards to third place

Will MAI-Image-2's focus on realism and natural light be enough to help Microsoft finally catch up to Google and OpenAI.

MAGA and leftists unite to push back on AI, drawing scrutiny from Musk and Trump's AI Czar

The organization Humans First, which hosts small group meetings, has gotten attention from Elon Musk and White House AI Czar David Sacks.

See Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo's Rare Family Photos as the Maroon 5 Frontman Turns 47

Adam Levine, who turns 47 on March 18, 2026, married model Behati Prinsloo in 2014, and the couple shares three kids. See the family of five's rare photos together ...