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Today, we’re bringing it to developers in Microsoft Foundry and expanding the family with MAI-Image-2.6-Flash – built to deliver that same level of quality for latency-sensitive, high-throughput production workloads.
Both models come with support for multi-image reference editing, web grounding, and dynamic aspect ratios.
Developers now have choice between maximum precision with MAI-Image-2.6 and production speed with MAI-Image-2.6-Flash.
Quality at production speed MAI-Image-2.6 has established itself among the industry’s leading image models.
Today, it ranks No. 2 for both text to image and image editing on Arena .[
1] On Artificial Analysis , it ranks No. 2 for text-to-image and No. 1 for image editing.[
2] MAI-Image-2.6-Flash brings comparable quality to latency-sensitive, high-throughput workloads.
It is able to generate images 2.8x faster than GPT-Image-2-Medium while delivering 72% greater efficiency.
Leading quality for the price …
