# Microsoft AI — Introducing MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash

- Company: Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
- Announced: 2026-07-23
- Category: model-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-image-2-5-pro-and-mai-voice-2-flash
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8420-introducing-mai-image-2-5-pro-and-mai-voice-2-flash
- Subject: MAI
- Models affected: MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, MAI-Voice-2-Flash
- Pricing: $5 per 1M text input tokens, $8 per 1M image input tokens, and $106 per 1M image output tokens for MAI-Image-2.5-Pro; $15 per 1M characters for MAI-Voice-2-Flash

Microsoft AI announced the public preview of MAI-Image-2.5-Pro (their highest-fidelity image model, priced at $5 per 1M text input tokens, $8 per 1M image input tokens, and $106 per 1M image output tokens) and MAI-Voice-2-Flash (a faster, 32% cheaper variant of MAI-Voice-2, priced at $15 per 1M characters). MAI-Image-2.5 is now the default model for Bing Image Creator and is used in PowerPoint and OneDrive; MAI-Voice-2-Flash powers Dynamics 365 Contact Center and is integrated in Azure Voice Live.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-image-2-5-pro-and-mai-voice-2-flash:

> MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is now in public preview. For use cases where quality is top of mind. Hero imagery, detailed editing, precise in-image text rendering. Pro is our highest-fidelity image model to date, priced at $5 per 1M text input tokens, $8 per 1M image input tokens, and $106 per 1M image output tokens.
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> MAI-Voice-2-Flash is now in public preview. First introduced at Build, Flash is built for speed and scale. It’s the fast, efficient path for high-volume voice experiences where responsiveness is everything, all while retaining the natural prosody and high acoustic quality found in MAI-Voice-2. Flash is 2x faster than MAI-Voice-2 and 32% cheaper, priced at $15 per 1M characters.

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