MAI-Image-2.6 launches at No. 2 on Arena ahead of Google, Meta and xAI | Microsoft AI

It improves +79 Elo over MAI-Image-2.5 overall, including +91 for text rendering, and is available on Arena today.

Ranked second on Arena's text-to-image leaderboard, ahead of models from Meta, Google, and xAI.
MAI-Image-2.6 improves on MAI-Image-2.5 in every measured Arena category.
Gains include stronger text rendering, better portraits and 3D imagery, and more polished commercial and photorealistic outputs.
Available now on Arena; coming later this week to MAI Playground and soon across Microsoft Foundry and other products.

Image-generation users and developers can now try a Microsoft model that ranks above Meta, Google, and xAI on Arena's text-to-image leaderboard.

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