Is Mai Image 2.5 SOTA? No

Q: Is Mai Image 2.5 state of the art?

No. Best recorded rank is #1 in Image generation. As of Oct 13, 2026, Mai Image 2.5 from Microsoft. Best recorded rank is #1 in Image generation. Last listed at #1 in Image generation on 2026-09-24.

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Is Mai Image 2.5 state of the art?

No.Best recorded rank is #1 in Image generation.

As of Oct 13, 2026, Mai Image 2.5 from Microsoft. Best recorded rank is #1 in Image generation. Last listed at #1 in Image generation on 2026-09-24.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 13, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: low

Image generationNot SOTA · #1#1 · 0d Image editNot SOTA · #4#4 · 0d

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Why

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Last listed at #1 in Image generation on 2026-09-24.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot

Source	Score	Date	Type	Receipt
LMArena Text-to-Image mai-image-2.5	1254.0074042608874 1249.8–1258.2	2026-09-24	INDEP.	snap_18dd575b9b7a
LMArena Image Edit mai-image-2.5	1400.902731924242 1397.2–1404.6	2026-10-06	INDEP.	snap_496a2069cef7

Reign history

Where it sits in the succession

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No closed or open crown interval includes this model.

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Where it is not the crown

Category	This model	Why
Image generation	Not SOTA · #1	Last listed at #1 in Image generation on 2026-09-24.
Image edit	Not SOTA · #4	Ranked #4 in Image edit.