Microsoft ships MAI-Image-2.6 Flash: 2.8x faster than GPT-Image-2-Medium, now Bing's default
JordiRib1 · x · 2026-11-11
Microsoft AI released MAI-Image-2.6 Flash, now the global default model for Bing Image Creator:
- Improves 3D imagery, portraits, photorealistic editing, and text rendering; the side-by-side 2.5 vs 2.6 Flash comparison shows notably richer detail, lighting, and background cityscapes.
- The Flash variant targets latency-sensitive workloads: 2.8x faster than GPT-Image-2-Medium with 72% greater efficiency.
- Available to Bing's 1 billion users.
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