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On October 27, 2026, Microsoft AI released the image editing model MAI Image 2.7, launching it in preview form. The Microsoft AI Blog said that the model ranks 3rd on Arena Edit and 2nd on the Artificial Analysis image editing leaderboard, making Microsoft AI the 2nd-ranked lab; the company also said that it outperforms 2.6 on all 10 use cases and 7 categories of editing actions evaluated by Artificial Analysis, and leads the next-best model by 24 Elo on scenes and styles. A subsequent IT Home report said that the model ranks 2nd on the AA-Image-Editing v2.1 leaderboard with 1193 Elo, second only to OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max). Users can currently try it on Arena, Artificial Analysis, and the MAI Playground, with text-to-image functionality coming soon; Microsoft has not yet announced a public API, pricing, or an official commercial launch date, and the model weights have not been released.
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Morning Brief: Apple launches its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, Huawei unveils the Pura 90 Plus and other new products
Apple has released its first 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with touchscreen support, powered by M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, starting at $2,899 (22999 yuan in mainland China), on sale November 6. Huawei launched the Pura 90 Plus, the first device to feature the Kirin 9025 chip, along with the Enjoy 100 series; Microsoft introduced the MAI-Image-2.7-Preview model focused on image editing, ranking second on the AA-Image-Editing v2.1 leaderboard with 1193 Elo.
Oct 28
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October 28 AI Daily Brief: Genie 4 and MAI-Image-2.7 Released
Google DeepMind released the interactive world model Genie 4, which supports natural language control and native audio. It is first being opened to Trusted Testers, with later integration into Google AI Ultra and the Gemini API. Microsoft AI launched the image editing model MAI-Image-2.7-Preview, ranking 3rd on Arena Edit and 2nd on AA-Image-Editing. Liquid AI open-sourced the LFM3 series of six 2B-class text, vision, audio, and omni-modal models, using a triple-hybrid architecture.
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Microsoft releases the MAI-Image-2.7-Preview image editing model, claiming it ranks second worldwide
Microsoft has released the MAI-Image-2.7-Preview image editing model, which focuses on taking an original image plus a text instruction as input and outputting an edited image; text-to-image generation is not yet available. On Artificial Analysis's AA-Image-Editing v2.1 leaderboard, the model ranks 2nd with 1,193 Elo, second only to OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max), and leads the next-best model by 24 Elo in scene and style editing. Users can try it on Arena, Artificial Analysis, and the MAI Playground; Microsoft has not yet announced a public API, pricing, or an official commercial launch date, and the model weights have not been released.
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Microsoft Releases MAI-Image-2.7-Preview Image Editing Model, Ranked Second on AA Leaderboard
Microsoft has released the MAI-Image-2.7-Preview image editing model, which ranks second with 1,193 Elo on Artificial Analysis's AA-Image-Editing v2.1 leaderboard, behind only OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max). At this stage, the model only supports editing via an input original image plus text instructions; text-to-image generation is not yet available. Compared with MAI-Image-2.6, it improves on all 10 use cases and all 7 categories of editing actions. Users can try it on Arena, Artificial Analysis, and MAI Playground; the public API, pricing, and commercial availability date have not yet been announced.
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Microsoft MAI Image 2.7 Preview Launches on Arena and MAI Playground
Microsoft has released the image editing model MAI Image 2.7 Preview, now available on Arena and MAI Playground. The model ranks 2nd on Artificial Analysis's AA-Image-Editing v2.1 leaderboard and 3rd on Image Editing Arena, a 45-point improvement over 2.6. Meanwhile, MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry.
Oct 27
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Microsoft MAI-Image-2.7-Preview Ranks Third on Image Edit Arena
Microsoft MAI-Image-2.7-Preview places 3rd overall on Image Edit Arena with a score of 1470, and Microsoft AI rises to 2nd in the lab rankings. Compared with the previous MAI-Image-2.6, which ranked 7th, this version improves by 45 points and advances in all categories: product and brand commercial design, portraits, and realistic and cinematic images all rise to 3rd; text rendering and cartoon/anime fantasy rise to 4th; and 3D imaging and modeling rise to 5th.
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Microsoft MAI-Image-2.7-Preview Rises to Second on the Image Editing Leaderboard
Mustafa Suleyman announced that MAI-Image has become the world's second-ranked image editing model, saying it once again surpasses Google, Meta, xAI and GPT-Image-2.5-Flare, and that it is available to try in MAI Playground. The Artificial Analysis evaluation he cited shows that Microsoft MAI-Image-2.7-Preview ranks second on AA-Image-Editing v2.1, behind only OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max), scoring higher than MAI-Image-2.6 on all 7 editing actions, including gains of +57 Elo in composition and framing, +49 in text or symbol editing, and +48 in scene and style editing, and ranking first on 4 of the actions. The model currently offers image editing only in MAI Playground, with text-to-image functionality said to be coming soon.
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Microsoft Releases Image Editing Model MAI Image 2.7, Ranked 3rd on Arena Edit
Microsoft AI has released the image editing model MAI Image 2.7, launched in preview form, ranking 3rd on Arena Edit and 2nd on the Artificial Analysis image editing leaderboard, making Microsoft AI the 2nd-ranked lab. The company states that the model outperforms 2.6 on all 10 use cases and 7 categories of editing actions evaluated by Artificial Analysis, leading the next-best model by 24 Elo in scenes and styles. It is currently available for trial on Arena, Artificial Analysis, and MAI Playground, with text-to-image functionality coming soon.
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Microsoft MAI-Image-2.7-Preview ranks second on AA-Image-Editing v2.1
Microsoft AI has released the image editing model MAI-Image-2.7-Preview, which ranks second on Artificial Analysis's AA-Image-Editing v2.1 leaderboard, behind only OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max). The model outperforms MAI-Image-2.6 on all 7 evaluated editing actions, with the largest improvement in composition and framing (+57 Elo), followed by text or symbol editing +49 and scene and style editing +48, and it ranks first in 4 categories: scene and style editing, text or symbol editing, reasoning-based editing, and enhancement and restoration. The model currently offers image editing only in the MAI Playground, with text-to-image functionality said to be coming soon.
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