Mustafa Suleyman(@mustafasuleyman):MAI-Image-2.6 is now the #2 text-to-image model in the world - beating out Nano Banana, Meta, and Grok! Fantastic moment for the team who've been hill climbing relentlessly. Try it out now on Arena!

2026.08.10 22:36

MAI-Image-2.6 is now the #2# text-to-image model in the world - beating out Nano Banana, Meta, and Grok! Fantastic moment for the team who've been hill climbing relentlessly. Try it out now on Arena!

Arena.ai@arena

2026.08.10 22:32

MAI-Image-2.6 by @MicrosoftAI has landed in the Text-to-Image Arena at #2# (1336 pts)! This release is just 45 pts behind GPT Image 2 (Medium) at #1#, and ahead of #3# Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (Low) by 20 pts. MAI-Image-2.6 is a significant improvement from MAI-Image-2.5 overall at #10# with (1256 pts), and across all categories. MAI will also be making it available on Playground with early API access on Foundry next week. See post below for more details. Congrats to the @MicrosoftAI team on this release!