I'm delighted to share that @mustafasuleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, co-founder of Google DeepMind and Inflection AI, has signed the Pro-Human AI Declaration. If you too support it, please join him and over a million others by signing it here – the momentum is building! Let's build tools not beings & keep humans in charge.

Generating high-quality images is cheaper and faster than ever. Muse Image, MAI-Image-2.6 and GPT Images 2.5 have substantially shifted the Text to Image Pareto frontiers for both price and speed in recent weeks.

Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it's not worth pursuing. We also need to accelerate and spread the benefits of AI, such that they are diffused broadly across countries, communities, and companies. This requires a frontier ecosystem in which both closed and open-source models can thrive. And for firms, it’s imperative that they retain full control over their unique and tacit knowledge. Every organization should be able to build its own continuous learning loop/hill climbing machine, without becoming dependent on any one model provider, and have the ability to embed its own knowledge into models and weights they control. So, in this context, we welcome the research, focus, and deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right as the design goal. We also welcome ideas like "embedded evaluators" and the broader efforts to develop the mechanisms to make this more than just talk. The key is that this cannot be controlled by a handful of entities, but must have broad representation across the ecosystem, countries, and fields, including academia. This is the approach we are taking: broad access and choice at every layer of the AI stack; enterprise control of learning loops and models; and the “Code of Conduct” that underlies our own first party MAI models that we’ll publish tomorrow for public consultation.

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6-Preview lands at #1# on the Artificial Analysis Image Editing Leaderboard and takes #2# in Text to Image MAI-Image-2.6 is the newest model in Microsoft AI's MAI-Image family, announced August 10. Microsoft highlights stronger text rendering, better portraits and 3D imagery, and more polished commercial and photorealistic outputs. Like the MAI-Image-2.5 family, it handles both text to image generation and image editing. In the Artificial Analysis Image Arena, MAI-Image-2.6-Preview debuts at #1# on the Image Editing Leaderboard, ahead of Microsoft's own MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, Reve 2.1, and OpenAI's GPT Image 2, and giving Microsoft the top two spots on the board. In Text to Image it takes #2#, behind only OpenAI's GPT Image 2 and ahead of Reve 2.1. On our refreshed Text to Image taxonomy, MAI-Image-2.6-Preview takes the top spot on 5 of the 19 category leaderboards (Material, Knowledge, Frontier, Retail & Ecommerce, and Marketing & Advertising), ahead of GPT Image 2, which leads every other category. MAI-Image-2.6 extends a rapid run of strong image releases from Microsoft AI. MAI-Image-2.5 debuted at #2# in Text to Image in June. MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, launched July 23, took #1# in Image Editing when we published our results last week. MAI-Image-2.6 now takes that top spot from its own sibling, and sits at #2# in Text to Image against MAI-Image-2.5-Pro's #8#. MAI-Image-2.6 is available in the MAI Playground and in Private Preview on Microsoft Foundry. Congratulations to @MicrosoftAI on the release! See below for our analysis of MAI-Image-2.6-Preview and other leading models in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena 🧵

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5-Pro debuts at #1# on the Artificial Analysis Image Editing Leaderboard, and takes the #7# spot in Text to Image MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is Microsoft AI's quality-focused image model, launched July 23 in preview on Microsoft Foundry. It joins MAI-Image-2.5 and MAI-Image-2.5-Flash in a family Microsoft positions as covering the quality-speed-cost curve, so builders can pick the point that fits their job. Pro sits at the quality end: Microsoft describes it as its highest-fidelity image model to date, aimed at hero imagery, detailed editing, and precise in-image text rendering. In the Artificial Analysis Image Arena, MAI-Image-2.5-Pro debuts at #1# on the Image Editing Leaderboard, surpassing Reve 2.1, GPT Image 2, and Microsoft's own MAI-Image-2.5. In Text to Image it lands at #7#. On Microsoft Foundry, MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is priced per token: $5 per 1M text input tokens, $8 per 1M image input tokens, and $106 per 1M image output tokens, which works out to roughly $108.5 per 1k 1024x1024 images. That compares to $48 per 1k images for MAI-Image-2.5 and $20 per 1k for MAI-Image-2.5-Flash. MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is available in preview on Microsoft Foundry across seven global-standard regions, and can be tried out in the MAI Playground. Congratulations to @MicrosoftAI on the release! See below for comparisons between MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and other leading models in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena 🧵