# Microsoft AI — Introducing MAI-Image-2: for limitless creativity

- 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/8432-introducing-mai-image-2-for-limitless-creativity
- Subject: MAI
- Models affected: MAI-Image-2

Microsoft AI announced MAI-Image-2, a text-to-image model that ranks third on the Arena.ai leaderboard. The model is available for preview in the MAI Playground and is rolling out on Copilot and Bing Image Creator, with API access for select customers and upcoming availability on Microsoft Foundry.

## Evidence

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

> Today, we’re announcing MAI-Image-2 — pushing MAI into the top three text-to-image labs in the world on the Arena.ai leaderboard.

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