Microsoft MAI-Image-2.5-Pro cuts PowerPoint costs by 84%

So Microsoft is routing its own products to cheaper in-house models whenever those models match frontier quality on a task. Microsoft AI (MAI) models reportedly beat general-purpose frontier models on many tasks while using a fraction of the tokens. The key is "Harness"… Show more

As @satyanadella says, we're making great progress on shipping MAI models that are higher quality, faster and cheaper across MSFT. In PowerPoint, our image model cut costs 84% compared with GPT-Image-2. In OneDrive, it lifted save rates 26% and cut latency by ~25%. It's also… Show more