Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 ranks third on Arena's text-to-image leaderboard, on par with Google's Nano Banana 2 but still behind OpenAI's Image-2. The model shows clear gains over its predecessor, especially in rendering text inside images and commercial visuals. The article Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 pulls even with Google's Nano Banana 2 on benchmarks appeared first on The Decoder.
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Google has introduced Dreambeans, a tool that pulls personal data from your Google account to generate AI-illustrated stories in a cartoon style. The feature represents a notable step toward using ambient personal data - photos, calendar events, and similar account content - as direct source material for generative image output. It is, by most measures, one of the more unusually named products Google has shipped.
A British MP has filed a lawsuit against xAI to establish whether the company bears legal responsibility for images generated by its Grok AI system. The case is part of a broader wave of scrutiny that includes investigations in the EU, the UK, and California. At issue is how far platform liability extends when an AI image generator produces harmful or problematic content.
Ideogram has released version 4.0 of its text-to-image model as an open-weight release, featuring native 2K resolution output, bounding box layout control, and refined text rendering. On the DesignArena leaderboard, it leads all open models, sitting just below closed systems from OpenAI and Google. Commercial use of the weights requires a paid license.
