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MAI-Image-2.6
● liveLive — image; our sweep read vercel/microsoft/mai-image-2.6 at $5/$38 per 1M on Oct 13; OpenRouter lists microsoft/mai-image-2.6-20260904 at the same price; launch date deliberately unstated: Microsoft's post, its model card, the Foundry catalog and OpenRouter give Jul 31, Aug 14, Sep 4 and early Oct, and none is better sourced from here; search-grade, not our own reading: a 2.6-Flash variant alongside it, both a Microsoft Foundry preview, text-to-image plus targeted editing, and Microsoft's claim of #2 on the image Arena behind GPT-Image-2. On the board as live — the watchers keep tracking it: lineup changes, pricing moves and deprecations all alert.
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MAI-Image-2.6: quick answers
Is MAI-Image-2.6 out?
Yes. MAI-Image-2.6 is live.
Who makes MAI-Image-2.6?
Microsoft. ArtificialWatch also tracks MAI-2 and Phi-5 from Microsoft.
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