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 text inside images and commercial visuals.

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Microsoft finally caught up with the top leaders in the highly competitive AI image generation space with its new MAI-Image-2.5 model.