Microsoft's new MAI-Image-2.7-Preview is now one of the top AI image editors on independent leaderboards, and you can try it now.

Microsoft AI released MAI-Image-2.7-Preview on Tuesday, a model for editing images you already have rather than making new ones from scratch (Microsoft AI). Microsoft says it can restyle or relight a whole scene, change text and symbols so they still blend into the picture, and restore or enhance older images.

Artificial Analysis, which runs independent blind tests, ranks it #2 for image editing, close behind OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst, and #1 in four of the seven edit types it measures, including scene and style edits and text or symbol edits (Artificial Analysis on X).

On Arena's image-edit leaderboard, where people vote between two results without knowing which model made them, it's #3 overall, 45 points up on the earlier MAI-Image-2.6 (Arena on X). For now it only edits images; Microsoft says text-to-image generation is "coming soon." Microsoft also made the older MAI-Image-2.6 and 2.6-Flash generally available to developers in Microsoft Foundry (Microsoft AI on X).

Try it: Microsoft says you can try the editing features today on MAI Playground, Arena and Artificial Analysis (Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman on X). Give it one of your own photos and ask for a lighting or style change, which is where the tests say it's strongest. There's no developer API or price for 2.7 yet.