Microsoft launches MAI-Image-2.7 in preview and makes MAI-Image-2.6 generally available

Microsoft has introduced MAI-Image-2.7, its latest image-editing foundation model, rolling out in preview across Microsoft AI Playground, LMSYS Arena and Artificial Analysis. In initial community testing, MAI-Image-2.7 achieved an Arena Edit score of 1,470 Elo points, placing it third overall and second among proprietary AI labs.

Artificial Analysis reported that MAI-Image-2.7 improves upon MAI-Image-2.6 across all 10 evaluated use cases and all seven editing action categories, particularly in object insertion, text modification and stylistic consistency. Text-to-image generation is scheduled for a future release.

Concurrently, Microsoft announced the general availability of MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash within Azure AI Foundry. The flagship 2.6 model supports multi-reference image editing using up to five source images, high-precision typographic rendering and output resolutions up to 1.5K, while MAI-Image-2.6-Flash is optimised for latency-critical and high-throughput production workloads in enterprise pipelines.