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Introducing MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash
Superintelligence team
July 23, 2026
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"MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is a strong leap forward for GenMedia tools. Beyond the impressive image quality, its ability to render text with this kind of accuracy is a real breakthrough. It also understands natural language edits, so creative iteration becomes faster and far more intuitive. Microsoft has firmly established itself among the leaders in generative AI."
Rob Reilly, Global Chief Creative Officer, WPP
A year ago, we set out to develop purpose-built models in-house at Microsoft AI. Models trained on clean, traceable, enterprise-grade data, without distillation from third-party models, and designed from the ground up to serve the people who use Microsoft products every day.
Today, that work is showing up where it matters in the products you already rely on. The models we previewed at Build are not just topping leaderboards, they are running in production, at scale, efficiently powering experiences for millions of users across a growing portfolio of Microsoft products, including Bing, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Dynamics 365, and Azure.
Introducing two new model variants
Real-world use cases are not one-size-fits-all. A creative studio chasing maximum fidelity has very different needs from a customer service center serving millions of calls daily. That’s why we’re building families of models: to give every product the right balance of quality, speed, and cost.
Today we’re expanding those options:
MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is now in public preview. For use cases where quality is top of mind. Hero imagery, detailed editing, precise in-image text rendering. Pro is our highest-fidelity image model to date, priced at $5 per 1M text input tokens, $8 per 1M image input tokens, and $106 per 1M image output tokens.
MAI-Voice-2-Flash is now in public preview. First introduced at Build, Flash is built for speed and scale. It’s the fast, efficient path for high-volume voice experiences where responsiveness is everything, all while retaining the natural prosody and high acoustic quality found in MAI-Voice-2. Flash is 2x faster than MAI-Voice-2 and 32% cheaper, priced at $15 per 1M characters.
MAI-Voice-2-Flash and MAI-Image-2.5-Pro sit alongside our existing production models so builders can pick the point on the quality-speed-cost curve that fits their job.
Purpose-built models for our Microsoft products
Leaderboards are great for benchmarking the quality of our models, but the proof lies in serving users in real product use cases. Microsoft rigorously evaluates all models before deciding on the best one for use in production environments. MAI models are outperforming competitive models for quality, latency and efficiency for more of Microsoft’s product surfaces:
Bing Image Creator is now 100% in-house. With MAI-Image-2.5‘s new precise image editing capabilities, it is now the default model powering Bing Image Creator end-to-end, for high-quality generation and greater creative control.
Image generation and editing capabilities available in PowerPoint. MAI-Image-2.5 is now in production in PowerPoint for image-to-image capabilities, reducing GPU costs up to 84% compared with GPT-Image-2.
Image editing in OneDrive. MAI-Image-2.5 is now the default model for key OneDrive production image-editing scenarios. Since rollout, it has increased save rates by 26%, reduced P95 latency by approximately 25%, and delivered 2.5x greater efficiency under medium-utilization production workloads.
Voice in the call center. MAI-Voice-2-Flash now powers Dynamics 365 Contact Center, the enterprise platform for building call center agents used by customers like T-Mobile and EasyJet, bringing our most expressive, natural...