Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 enters Arena's top 3 with better image generation

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 pulls even with Google's Nano Banana 2 on benchmarks

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 ranks third on Arena's text-to-image leaderboard, on par with Google's Nano Banana 2 but still behind OpenAI's Image-2. The model shows clear gains over its predecessor, especially in rendering…