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

Microsoft AI released MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash in Public Preview on Microsoft Foundry.

• The model ranks second on the Arena text-to-image leaderboard, improving +79 Elo over MAI-Image-2.5 overall, with gains across every Arena text-to-image category including a +91 Elo improvement in text rendering.
• The release also includes better portraits, 3D imagery, and more polished commercial and photorealistic outputs.