This translates to MAI-Image-2.6-Flash's best Image Editing use cases: Architecture & Real Estate, Animation & Gaming, Frontier Prompts, and Live-Action Film

Use cases measure how those editing actions combine in the workloads end users run.

MAI-Image-2.6-Flash sets the Image Editing category frontier in Architecture & Real Estate, and sits within 6 points of the leader in Animation & Gaming, Frontier Prompts, and Live-Action Film. Against MAI-Image-2.5-Flash it closes the gap to the frontier on nine of the ten use cases, with the largest gains in Architecture & Real Estate, Frontier Prompts, and Animation & Gaming.

➤ Architecture & Real Estate covers listing photos, virtual staging, renders, and floor plans for real spaces.

➤ Animation & Gaming covers game assets and concept art: characters, creatures, sprites, and environments.

➤ Frontier prompts: our maximum-difficulty category, calibrated so current leading models struggle to generate quality outputs.