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Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 creates and edits pictures from text descriptions, offered to developers online rather than as a download.
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LMArena text-to-image · LMArena
In blind votes, people pick MAI-Image-2.6 over Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) about 74% of the time.
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