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Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5-Pro creates and edits pictures from text descriptions, offered to developers through an API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet. rather than as a free download.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.5 Sunburst creates and edits pictures from written instructions, offered to developers and not free to download.
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