{"id":"mai-image-2-7-preview","slug":"mai-image-2-7-preview","name":"MAI-Image-2.7-Preview","orgId":"microsoft","family":"mai-image-2-7-preview","releaseDate":"2026-10-27","availability":"ga","openWeights":false,"license":"Proprietary","paramsTotal":null,"paramsSource":null,"contextWindow":null,"knowledgeCutoff":null,"modelCardUrl":"https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-image-2-7-debut/","hfRepo":null,"modalities":["image"],"aliases":["MAI-Image-2.7-Preview","mai image 2.7 preview","mai-image-2-7-preview","mai image 2.7","mai-image-2.7","microsoft mai-image-2.7-preview","mai-image-2.7-preview"],"aliasNote":null,"origin":"tracked","tracked":{"trackedSince":"2026-10-27","announced":"2026-10-27","blurb":"Microsoft AI's image-editing model, released in preview on Oct 27, 2026 as the successor to MAI-Image-2.6. Microsoft says it can restyle or relight a whole scene, change text and symbols inside an image, and restore or enhance existing assets. It launched for editing only; no API, pricing or weights have been announced.","api":"none","openWeights":"unknown","facts":[{"label":"Lab","value":"Microsoft AI (MAI)"},{"label":"Focus","value":"Image editing: scene restyling and relighting, text and symbol edits, restoration and enhancement"},{"label":"Status","value":"Preview"},{"label":"Predecessor","value":"MAI-Image-2.6"},{"label":"Availability","value":"MAI Playground (Mustafa Suleyman's post); also listed in the Arena image-edit leaderboard"},{"label":"Modes","value":"Image editing only at launch; text-to-image stated as coming soon","unsure":true,"note":"Per Artificial Analysis's launch post, citing Microsoft."},{"label":"Parameters","value":"Not disclosed"},{"label":"API","value":"None announced"},{"label":"Weights","value":"Not stated"}],"claims":["Lab claim: improves on MAI-Image-2.6 across all 10 use cases and all 7 editing actions evaluated by Artificial Analysis, with its biggest lead in scene and style (24 Elo ahead of the next model).","Lab claim: launched at No. 3 on Arena's image-edit leaderboard (a +45 point jump from 2.6) and No. 2 on Artificial Analysis's image-editing leaderboard."],"sources":[{"kind":"lab","title":"Microsoft AI: MAI Image 2.7 debuts above GPT Image 2.5 Flare on Artificial Analysis and #3 on Arena","url":"https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-image-2-7-debut/","date":"2026-10-27"},{"kind":"lab","title":"Microsoft AI announcement on X","url":"https://x.com/MicrosoftAI/status/2115102961957499069","date":"2026-10-27"},{"kind":"lab","title":"Mustafa Suleyman (CEO, Microsoft AI) on X","url":"https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/2115099284224008200","date":"2026-10-27"},{"kind":"press","title":"Artificial Analysis on X: MAI-Image-2.7-Preview on AA-Image-Editing","url":"https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2115097540320506069","date":"2026-10-27"},{"kind":"press","title":"Arena on X: MAI-Image-2.7-Preview in the Image Edit Arena","url":"https://x.com/arena/status/2115101113666134276","date":"2026-10-27"}],"peer":{"slug":"mai-image-2-6","label":"its predecessor, MAI-Image-2.6"},"firstBenchmark":{"date":"2026-10-28","benchmarkId":"lmarena-image-edit"}},"listedSince":"2026-10-27","eligibleSince":"2026-10-28","organization":{"id":"microsoft","name":"Microsoft","slug":"microsoft","country":null,"url":null,"color":"#0078D4","mark":"MS"},"price":null,"answer":{"word":"Too new.","scope":"Too new to call. The crown still needs confirming evidence.","lead":"As of Oct 28, 2026, MAI-Image-2.7-Preview is leading, crown pending confirmation in Image edit (since Oct 28, 2026; sources LMArena Image Edit; methodology v1.0). Too new to call Image edit. A crown change still needs two confirming signals.","confidence":"low"},"status":"BENCHMARKED","verdicts":[{"id":"v_overall_image-edit_mai-image-2-7-preview_2026-10-28_open_PENDING","model":"mai-image-2-7-preview","model_name":"MAI-Image-2.7-Preview","category":"image-edit","category_name":"Image edit","slice":"overall","state":"PENDING","rank":3,"present_evidence":[],"missing_evidence":[],"coverage":null,"segments":[],"confirm":[],"margin":3.7037037037037095,"confidence":"low","valid_from":"2026-10-28","valid_to":null,"configuration":null,"rationale":"Too new to call Image edit. A crown change still needs two confirming signals.","safeguard_flags":[],"co_sota_with":[],"challengers":[],"methodology":"1.0","label":"Pending · Image edit"}]}