MAI-Image-2
Notable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.
Key facts
- Released
- Mar 19, 2026
- What it does
- Makes images: Creates pictures from a description, or edits them.
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- How
- For developers, through an API
- Announced as
- “Introducing MAI-Image-2: for limitless creativity”
From trckr's archive of releases before it started watching. Date and details from Epoch AI's database of AI models (CC BY 4.0).
How it scores
From independent testers, never the lab's own claims.
- Pictures, by people's votes#24 of 78
- GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst1,428
- 2GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst1,406
- 23UNI-1.1 Max1,188
- 24MAI-Image-21,183
- 25UNI-1.11,182
Source: LMArena · LMArena text-to-image
Compare MAI-Image-2 with
It came out 157 days after MAI-Image-1, the lab's previous model.
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