Microsoft in May 2026 released MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a stripped-down version of its MAI-Image-2 image generation model built to lower costs and speed up output for enterprise customers. VentureBeat ...
How Microsoft shipped a production-optimized image model in under a month. The speed of this release deserves attention. MAI-Image-2 itself only debuted on MAI Playground on March ...
AI images just got cheaper to produce at scale. Microsoft recently launched MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a new text-to-image model designed to deliver production-quality visuals at a significantly lower ...