# Microsoft AI — Introducing MAI-Image-2

- Company: Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
- Announced: 2026-03-19
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-image-2/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/10954-introducing-mai-image-2
- Subject: MAI
- Models affected: MAI-Image-2

Microsoft AI announced MAI-Image-2, a text-to-image model ranked #3 on the Arena.ai leaderboard. The model features enhanced photorealism, reliable in-image text generation, and rich scene generation. It is available for preview in the MAI Playground, rolling out on Copilot and Bing Image Creator, with API access for select customers and planned availability on Microsoft Foundry.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-image-2/:

> Ranked the #3 model family on the Arena.ai leaderboard.

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