Microsoft Image Big Closed weights

MAI-Image-2.6

94 days since Microsoft announced it · 10 Aug 2026

MAI-Image-2.6 is a closed-weights image model from Microsoft, announced 10 Aug 2026.

Price: —; the lab’s list price
Parameters: —; not disclosed

No price on the lab’s own pages.

Announcement: microsoft.ai/news/mai-image-2-6-launches-at-no-2-on-arena-ahead-of-google-meta-and-xai
Docs: ai.azure.com/catalog/models/MAI-Image-2.6
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MAI-Image-2.6 +18d 10 Aug 2026
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Facts last updated 7 Nov 2026, from Microsoft’s own pages.