MAI-Image-2.5
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
- Jun 2, 2026
- What it does
- Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Makes images: Creates pictures from a description, or edits them.
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- How
- For developers, through an API
- Announced as
- “MAI-Image-2.5 launches at No. 2 for image editing on Arena”
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#14 of 78
- GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst1,428
- 2GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst1,406
- 13Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro1,254
- 14MAI-Image-2.51,253
- 15Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image1,249
Source: LMArena · LMArena text-to-image
Compare MAI-Image-2.5 with
It came out 49 days after MAI-Image-2-Efficient, the lab's previous model.
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