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Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2.7-Preview ranks #2 on Artificial Analysis image editing benchmark
- Who
- Mustafa Suleyman
- What
- highlighted MAI-Image’s #2 ranking on an image editing benchmark
What happened
Artificial Analysis reports that Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2.7-Preview ranks #2 on AA-Image-Editing v2.1, behind OpenAI’s GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max), in a post shared by Mustafa Suleyman. It outperforms MAI-Image-2.6 across all 7 measured editing actions and ranks #1 in 4. The model is available today for image editing in MAI Playground, with text to image stated to be coming soon.
Why it matters
The action-level results show where MAI-Image-2.7-Preview improved over its predecessor, providing a more specific comparison than its overall image editing rank.
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The story so far
Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2.7-Preview placed second on Artificial Analysis’s AA-Image-Editing v2.1 benchmark and is now available for image editing in MAI Playground, according to Artificial Analysis. It ranked close behind OpenAI’s GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max). Mustafa Suleyman shared the result, calling MAI-Image “the #2 image edit model in the world.” Artificial Analysis said the preview outperformed MAI-Image-2.6 across all seven measured editing actions and ranked first in four. Its largest gains over that version were in Composition & Framing (+57 Elo), Text or Symbol Edits (+49 Elo), and Scene & Style Edit (+48 Elo). MAI Playground access currently covers image editing only; text-to-image generation is described as coming soon.
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