We Stress-Tested Microsoft's New Image Model Against OpenAI and Google. The Results Were Clear.
RuntimeWire prompts found OpenAI strongest for dashboard text and Google strongest for web layouts, while Microsoft excelled at photoreal spaces.
By Ryan Merket · Published · Updated
Why it matters
Image models are moving into the earliest stages of product design. For founders and product teams, the winning model may be the one that can turn a prompt into a mockup a team would actually debate, revise, or ship.
When Microsoft unveiled its new image generation model alongside the MAI family this morning, the obvious question wasn't whether it could create beautiful images. Nearly every frontier image model can do that now.
The more interesting question was whether it could do something harder.
Could it generate software?
Not actual code, but the visual artifacts that increasingly sit upstream of product development: dashboards, admin panels, analytics consoles, newsroom interfaces, and SaaS applications.…