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Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.7-Preview takes #2 on AA-Image-Editing v2.1, close behind OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max) and a clear step up from MAI-Image-2.6 MAI-Image-2.7-Preview is Microsoft AI's newest image editing model, succeeding MAI-Image-2.6, released in August. In our testing, MAI-Image-2.7-Preview scores higher than MAI-Image-2.6 on all 7 editing actions we measure, and ranks #1 on 4 of them: Scene & Style Edit, Text or Symbol Edits, Reasoning-Based Edit, and Enhancement & Restoration. This new model improves on MAI-Image-2.6 with the biggest gains in Composition & Framing (+57 Elo), Text or Symbol Edits (+49) and Scene & Style Edit (+48). We see its best use cases to be in Live-Action Film, Consumer and Frontier edits, where it ranks #1. MAI-Image-2.7-Preview is available today in MAI Playground for image editing only, with text to image stated to be coming soon. Congratulations to @MicrosoftAI on the release! See below for our detailed analysis and example outputs of MAI-Image-2.7-Preview in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena 🧵

Introducing Microsoft-Decision-1, our new model for fast decision-making. It delivers top performance on structured decision tasks, outperforming both LLMs and other decision models in latency and quality. We’re already testing it across Microsoft for everything from incident response and quality control to scientific discovery.

Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, taking the #1 spot for Final Transcript accuracy and First Partial Transcript accuracy on AA-WER Streaming with 2.5% WER at 0.13s after end of speech MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming is @MicrosoftAI's new streaming Speech to Text model, joining the non-streaming MAI-Transcribe-2. It leads streaming Final Transcript WER at 2.5%, ahead of the previous #1, SpaceXAI's Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 at 2.7%, and returns that transcript in 0.13s rather than 0.49s. It is available for streaming transcription at $0.54 per hour of audio, at the higher end of pricing among the leading streaming models. Key takeaways ➤ Final Transcript: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming achieves 2.5% WER at 0.13s after end of speech, ranking #1 of 38 models. It is more accurate and faster than Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 at 2.7% and 0.49s, Muse Voice Transcribe at 3.1% and 0.16s, and ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime at 3.6% and 0.14s. It is also more accurate, though slightly slower, than Cartesia Ink Preview (external endpoints) at 3.1% and 0.11s ➤ First Partial Transcript: The model achieves 2.5% WER at 0.12s, ahead of Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 at 3.4% and 0.49s, and ahead of Muse Voice Transcribe and ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime on accuracy, both at 3.6%, and slightly faster than both at 0.12s versus 0.13s. It is more accurate but slower than Cartesia Ink-2 (external endpoints) at 4.0% and 0.07s ➤ Price: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming costs $0.54 per hour for streaming, or $9.00 per 1,000 minutes. This puts it level with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live at $9, above the $6.50 charged for ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime and Deepgram Flux, more than twice Cartesia Ink-2 at $4, and three times Muse Voice Transcribe at $3. Non-streaming transcription costs $0.10 per hour, or $1.67 per 1,000 minutes Congrats to the @MicrosoftAI team on the launch! See more details below

Excited to see early customers already using Astra on Azure! https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/gpt-6-astra-frontier-intelligence-for-work-now-available-in-microsoft-foundry/

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6-Preview lands at #1 on the Artificial Analysis Image Editing Leaderboard and takes #2 in Text to Image MAI-Image-2.6 is the newest model in Microsoft AI's MAI-Image family, announced August 10. Microsoft highlights stronger text rendering, better portraits and 3D imagery, and more polished commercial and photorealistic outputs. Like the MAI-Image-2.5 family, it handles both text to image generation and image editing. In the Artificial Analysis Image Arena, MAI-Image-2.6-Preview debuts at #1 on the Image Editing Leaderboard, ahead of Microsoft's own MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, Reve 2.1, and OpenAI's GPT Image 2, and giving Microsoft the top two spots on the board. In Text to Image it takes #2, behind only OpenAI's GPT Image 2 and ahead of Reve 2.1. On our refreshed Text to Image taxonomy, MAI-Image-2.6-Preview takes the top spot on 5 of the 19 category leaderboards (Material, Knowledge, Frontier, Retail & Ecommerce, and Marketing & Advertising), ahead of GPT Image 2, which leads every other category. MAI-Image-2.6 extends a rapid run of strong image releases from Microsoft AI. MAI-Image-2.5 debuted at #2 in Text to Image in June. MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, launched July 23, took #1 in Image Editing when we published our results last week. MAI-Image-2.6 now takes that top spot from its own sibling, and sits at #2 in Text to Image against MAI-Image-2.5-Pro's #8. MAI-Image-2.6 is available in the MAI Playground and in Private Preview on Microsoft Foundry. Congratulations to @MicrosoftAI on the release! See below for our analysis of MAI-Image-2.6-Preview and other leading models in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena 🧵

MAI-Image-2.6-Preview by @MicrosoftAI has landed at #3 in Single Image Edit with 1,420 pts! This is +19 pts above MAI-Image-2.5, moving from #5 to #3. It sits 19 pts behind preliminary Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (low) at #2 and 43 pts behind GPT Image 2 (medium) at #1. By category, MAI-Image-2.6-Preview is #3 in across: - Product, Branding & Commercial Design - 3D Imaging & Modeling - Cartoon, Anime & Fantasy - Photorealistic & Cinematic Imagery #4 in Portraits and #8 in Text Rendering. The biggest jumps over MAI-Image-2.5 are in Text Rendering (+43 pts) and Product, Branding & Commercial Design (+38 pts). Congrats again to the @MicrosoftAI team on this release!