Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.7-Preview ranks #2 on Artificial Analysis image editing

Artificial Analysis says Microsoft AI's MAI-Image-2.7-Preview, the newest image editing model and successor to MAI-Image-2.6 (released in August), takes second place on its AA-Image-Editing v2.1 leaderboard, close behind OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max). The results are Artificial Analysis's own.

Results it reports:

• The model scores higher than MAI-Image-2.6 on all 7 editing actions and ranks #1 on 4 of them.
• Among the 10 use cases, it ranks #1 for Live-Action Film, Consumer, Frontier and UI/UX (narrowly in UI/UX).

Separately, Arena said the model landed at #3 overall in its Image Edit Arena with 1470 points, 45 more than MAI-Image-2.6 (#7), making Microsoft AI second among labs.

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