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MAI-Image-2.6

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Overview

Successor to MAI-Image-2.5 in Microsoft's in-house MAI image family, with improved text rendering, portraits, 3D imagery and reference-image support. Released in public preview in Microsoft Foundry together with MAI-Image-2.6-Flash, a faster, cheaper variant that is not tracked separately here.

Capabilities and innovations

Text-to-imageImage editingMulti-image reference editingWeb-grounded generationDynamic aspect ratiosSpeed-tier Flash variant released alongside

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