Release2026-10-27

Microsoft AI released MAI Image 2.7 in preview. It ranks No. 3 on Arena Edit and No. 2 on Artificial Analysis’s image editing leaderboard. It improves across all 10 editing use cases and 7 editing actions. It leads by 24 Elo in scene and style. It enables restyling scenes, relighting, text and symbol edits, and asset restoration. It is available on Arena, Artificial Analysis and MAI Playground. Text-to-image generation is coming soon.

What it unlocks

Restyling scenes, relighting, editing text and symbols while keeping them integrated, and restoring assets.

  • No. 3 on Arena Edit
  • No. 2 on Artificial Analysis image editing
  • 24 Elo lead in scene and style

What you need to act on it

  • preview access

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