Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 ranks #2# in Text to Image and #3# in Image Editing in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena, behind only OpenAI's image models The latest addition to the MAI Image family is capable of handling both text to image generation and image editing, up to a maximum output resolution of roughly 1MP at flexible aspect ratios with a 32K token context. MAI-Image-2.5 is one of the strongest image models we have tested, ranking #2# in Text to Image behind only OpenAI's GPT Image 2. Its Image Editing capabilities rank at #3# on our leaderboard, ranking just behind OpenAI’s image models, with performance comparable to Google’s Nano Banana 2. MAI-Image-2.5-Flash, the faster, lower-cost variant, lands at #8# in Text to Image and #6# in Image Editing. MAI-Image-2.5 is priced at $48 per 1k images and MAI-Image-2.5-Flash at $20 per 1k images on the Foundry API. Both are also available in the MAI Playground, and MAI-Image-2.5 is available to users in PowerPoint and OneDrive. Congratulations to @MicrosoftAI on the release! See below for comparisons between MAI-Image-2.5 and other leading models in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena 🧵