Microsoft launches MAI-Image-2.6 and Flash on Foundry
MAI-Image-2.6 is now generally available on Microsoft Foundry, ranking #2 for text-to-image and #1 for image editing on Artificial Analysis. Priced at $38.90 per 1K output images, it averages ~$0.048 per image. A new Flash variant generates images 2.8x faster than GPT-Image-2-Medium with 72% greater efficiency.
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