Release dates
— Microsoft opened the MAI Image 2.7 image-editing preview on Arena, Artificial Analysis, and MAI Playground; text-to-image is still forthcoming. ↗
MAI Image 2.7
An image-editing model in the MAI Image family for restyling scene lighting, changing text or symbols in an image, and restoring or enhancing existing assets from text instructions.
Microsoft opened image-editing preview on Arena, Artificial Analysis, and MAI Playground on 2026-10-27. Text-to-image remains a future plan; no API model ID or open weights are published.
MODEL NUMBER044
- First public date
- 2026-10-27
- Organization
- Microsoft AI
- Family
- MAI Image
01
Specifications
Only published specifications are shown.
02
Overview
Why it mattered
Microsoft released MAI Image 2.7 as a separately named preview and says it improves on 2.6 for image-editing tasks. The preview starts with editing; text-to-image has not launched. Leaderboard claims are attributed to Microsoft.
PreviousMAI-Image-2.6— · — ctx
CurrentMAI Image 2.7— · — ctx
04
Architecture & capabilities
Model capabilities
Image editingVisual reasoning
05
Release history
Microsoft opened the MAI Image 2.7 image-editing preview on Arena, Artificial Analysis, and MAI Playground; text-to-image is still forthcoming.
View source06
Related models
Select a card to view the related model.
07
Sources
Suggest a correction
Copy this template, add the field, proposed value, and primary source, and share it with the archive maintainer.