That photo above? I didn't take it while writing this article in a coffee shop. I created it sitting at my home office desk, using Microsoft's new AI image generator, MAI-Image-1 .

In AI vocabulary, the new tool is referred to as a "text-to-image model," meaning you write a prompt, and then the AI tool delivers an image. The prompt I used for this image was, "Create a picture of two people talking and having coffee at a coffee shop."

But I could easily have used the image below instead, since the tool spat out two for me to choose from.

Not real people, not real coffee. Microsoft

Microsoft's new AI image generator has not been officially released in the marketplace yet. You can access it by visiting LMArena -- a community platform where people test out different AI models. LMAre

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