←Back to NewsAI News/ImagenewsImageBenchmarksMicrosoft's MAI-Image-2.6 Climbs to No. 2 Faster Than Any RivalMicrosoft says its MAI-Image family gained 283 Elo in ten months, climbing the LMArena text-to-image board 1.6x faster than any rival lab.SourceMicrosoft AIPublishedSep 23, 2026, 4:54 PMAuthorAlphaSignal NewsroomRead1 min readMicrosoft says its MAI-Image family gained 283 Elo in ten months, climbing the LMArena text-to-image board 1.6x faster than any rival lab.Reporting is indexed from AlphaSignal. Rights remain with the original publisher and cited sources.Read original report ↗Next readsEpoch AI · newsEpoch's FAB Benchmark Watched GPT-6 Astra Jump from 28% to 80%Artificial Analysis · newsxAI's Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Jumps to No. 4 at 29% of OpenAI's PriceNVIDIA AI · newsNVIDIA's Axolotl3D Reconstructs Hidden 3D Geometry From Partial Photos
