Models
Microsoft opens MAI-Image-2.6 to Foundry developers
Microsoft AI said on 4 Sep 2026 that MAI-Image-2.6 — plus a faster sibling, MAI-Image-2.6-Flash — is available to developers in Microsoft Foundry and the MAI Playground. Both models add multi-image reference editing, web grounding, and dynamic aspect ratios (up to about 1.5K); Microsoft claims Flash generates images about 2.8× faster than GPT-Image-2-Medium with higher efficiency. Arena and Artificial Analysis ranks on the post are Microsoft’s own citations as of that date — this is Microsoft’s image stack, not Midjourney or OpenAI DALL·E branding.