MAI-Image-2.6 is finally here. It is a wonderful image model that is just 45 points behind GPT Image 2 Medium. It is ahead of Grok Imagine Image 2.0 by 20 points. This is an upgrade over MAI-Image-2.5 which now sits at 10. This model is expected to be available on Playground and through API next week.
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… pic.twitter.com/7hxPZ7DrBF
— Arena.ai (@arena) August 10, 2026
