MAI-Image-2

Microsoft🇺🇸 United States
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MAI-Image-2 improves upon MAI-Image-1 with enhanced photorealism, natural lighting, and notably adds reliable text rendering capabilities for practical design applications. The model ranks third on Arena.ai leaderboard, up from ninth place for the previous version.

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Microsoft's superintelligence team releases MAI-Image-2, ranks third in text-to-image generation

Microsoft's superintelligence team, led by Mustafa Suleyman, has released MAI-Image-2, a text-to-image generator that currently ranks third on the Arena.ai leaderboard for text-to-image models, behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-1.5 and Google's Nano Banana 2. The model is now available for testing in the MAI Playground and will roll out to Copilot and Bing Image Creator, with API access opening to all developers through Microsoft Foundry.

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