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Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 matches Google's Nano Banana 2

Microsoft has released MAI-Image-2.5, a new text-to-image model that achieves performance comparable to Google's Nano Banana 2. While it ranks third on the Arena leaderboard, it shows significant improvement over its previous version, particularly in generating text within images and commercial visuals. AI

IMPACT Sets new benchmarks for text-to-image generation, potentially influencing future model development and applications.

RANK_REASON The cluster reports on a new model release and its performance on benchmarks, which falls under research. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 matches Google's Nano Banana 2

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  1. The Decoder TIER_1 English(EN) · Matthias Bastian ·

    Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 pulls even with Google's Nano Banana 2 on benchmarks

    <p><img alt="" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" height="793" src="https://the-decoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mai_25.png" style="height: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;" width="1195" /></p> <p> Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 ranks third on Arena's text-to-image leader…