MAI-Image-2.5 support in ElBruno.Text2Image and the t2i CLI 🚀

⚠️ This blog post was created with the help of AI tools. Yes, I used a bit of magic from language models to organize my thoughts and automate the boring parts, but the geeky fun and the 🤖 in C# are 100% mine.

Hi!

Microsoft Build brought a wave of new AI model announcements, and one of the fun ones for image generation is MAI-Image-2.5.

So, of course, I had to add support for it in my .NET image generation library and CLI tool 😅

The latest version of ElBruno.Text2Image now supports:

MAI-Image-2.5
MAI-Image-2.5-Flash

This means you can generate images using the new MAI models from a .NET app or directly from the terminal with the t2i CLI.

Install the CLI

dotnet tool install --global ElBruno.Text2Image.Cli

Or update it if you already have it installed:

dotnet tool update --global ElBruno.Text2Image.Cli

Generate an image from the terminal

Using MAI-Image-2.5:

t2i --provider foundry-mai25 "a photograph of a red fox in an autumn forest"

Using MAI-Image-2.5-Flash:

t2i --provider foundry-mai25-flash "a quick concept sketch of a city skyline"

That’s the part I like the most:

prompt -> terminal -> image

Simple and fun.

Use it from C#

You can also use the new MAI-Image-2.5 model from a .NET app.

using ElBruno.Text2Image;
using ElBruno.Text2Image.Foundry;

using var generator = new MaiImage25Generator(
    endpoint: "https://your-resource.services.ai.azure.com",
    apiKey: "your-api-key",
    httpClient: new HttpClient(),
    modelName: "MAI-Image-2.5",
    modelId: "MAI-Image-2.5");

var result = await generator.GenerateAsync(
    "A photograph of a red fox in an autumn forest");

await result.SaveAsync("mai-image25-output.png");

And for the Flash version, use the same generator with the Flash model id:

using ElBruno.Text2Image;
using ElBruno.Text2Image.Foundry;

using var generator = new MaiImage25Generator(
    endpoint: "https://your-resource.services.ai.azure.com",
    apiKey: "your-api-key",
    httpClient: new HttpClient(),
    modelName: "MAI-Image-2.5-Flash",
    modelId: "MAI-Image-2.5-Flash");

var result = await generator.GenerateAsync(
    "A clean comic-style illustration of a happy developer building AI apps");

await result.SaveAsync("mai-image25-flash-output.png");

Why this is useful

The goal of this project is simple:

Use image generation from .NET
Support cloud and local models
Keep the API clean
Make the CLI useful for developers, demos, agents, and automation
Avoid needing a Python environment for every image generation experiment

And now with MAI-Image-2.5 and MAI-Image-2.5-Flash, we have more options to experiment with image generation from .NET and from the command line.

Build announcements are fun. Build announcements that I can use from a terminal? Even better 😎

Happy coding!

Greetings

El Bruno