1. WindowsForum AI

    MAI-Image-2.6 Reaches No. 2 on Arena, Foundry Pending

    Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2.6 has entered Arena’s text-to-image leaderboard at No. 2, trailing OpenAI’s GPT-Image-2 and posting ahead of Google’s Nano Banana models, Meta’s Muse Image, and xAI’s Grok Imagine Image 2.0. The result is real, and it is more consequential than the celebratory framing...