# Microsoft previews MAI-Image-2.7 editing model, ranks #3 on Arena

> Original title: MICROSOFT 🔥: MAI Image 2.7 Preview, a new image-editing model, is now available on Arena and MAI Playground!

- Source: Testing Catalog
- Published: 2026-10-27T16:42:41.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/zd5d66ejqefj2jrwitsoyzxpc
- Original: https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2115122021294112923

## Summary

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.7-Preview is now available on Arena and MAI Playground, ranking #2 on Artificial Analysis's AA-Image-Editing v2.1 benchmark. It places #3 on the Image Editing Arena, a 45-point gain over MAI-Image-2.6, and Microsoft says it ranks ahead of GPT-Image-2 on the leaderboard. MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash are also now generally available in Microsoft Foundry.

## Post

MICROSOFT 🔥: MAI Image 2.7 Preview, a new image-editing model, is now available on Arena and MAI Playground! 

> MAI-Image-2.7-Preview takes #2 on AA-Image-Editing v2.1 from Artificial Analysis. 

> It is now #3 on Image Editing Arena with a +45-point jump from 2.6.

Besides that, MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry.

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## Quoted post @MicrosoftAI

> MAI-Image keeps climbing! 
> 
> MAI Image 2.7 Preview is now #3 on @arena's image editing leaderboard. #2 by lab and ahead of GPT-Image-2. That's a +45 point jump from 2.6.

https://x.com/MicrosoftAI/status/2115102961957499069