MAI Image

Microsoft · image line

4 releases since 2025Latest: MAI-Image-2.6

Where the line stands

How long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.

Microsoft · MAI Image line · image

Just releasedreleased 5 days ago — usual gap is ~94

No. 2 on the Arena text-to-image leaderboard, +79 Elo over MAI-Image-2.5 across all eight categories.

Days since last release

MAI-Image-2.6 · Sep 4, 2026

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Usual gap

days

Recent gaps

MAI-Image-2.6 · Sep 2026

MAI-Image-2.5 · Jun 2026

MAI-Image-2 · Mar 2026

157

Newest first — what each version changed versus the one before, in Microsoft's own numbers.

Sep

No. 2 on the Arena text-to-image leaderboard, +79 Elo over MAI-Image-2.5 across all eight categories.

Jun

Launched at No. 2 for image editing on Arena, unveiled at Build 2026.

Mar

Oct

Microsoft's first in-house image model, debuting in the top 10 on LMArena and inside Bing Image Creator.

Sources: Learn AI

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