Microsoft ships MAI-Image-2.6 to Foundry at about 4 cents an image
Mustafa Suleyman's lab paired Arena's No. 2 text-to-image model with a half-price Flash version for high-volume workloads.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Arena on X
Why it matters
Microsoft now has a top-tier image model it can sell and deploy itself, giving Suleyman's lab more control over inference costs and less dependence on outside model providers.
Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman) put Microsoft AI's highest-ranked image model into public preview on Friday, turning a month-old leaderboard result into a product developers can deploy through Microsoft Foundry.…
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