# Microsoft AI — Pushing the quality-cost frontier with MAI-Image-2.6

- Company: Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
- Announced: 2026-09-04
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/pushing-the-quality-cost-frontier-with-mai-image-2-6
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8412-pushing-the-quality-cost-frontier-with-mai-image-2-6
- Subject: MAI
- Models affected: MAI-Image-2.6, MAI-Image-2.6-Flash

Microsoft AI released MAI-Image-2.6, its strongest image model, and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash for latency-sensitive workloads. Both models support multi-reference editing, web grounding, and dynamic aspect ratios. They are available in Microsoft Foundry in Public Preview.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://microsoft.ai/news/pushing-the-quality-cost-frontier-with-mai-image-2-6:

> MAI-Image-2.6 is our strongest image model yet. 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.

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