MOSS-Image is a new Apache 2.0 text-to-image model from OpenMOSS built for dense text and layouts. Here is what its benchmarks show, how its JSON layout prompts work, what it cannot do yet, and how to run it in Diffusers or ComfyUI.
OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 tops the main blind-vote leaderboards for image generation and editing. Google's Nano Banana 2.1 ranks a few places lower but costs $33.6 per 1,000 images on Artificial Analysis' count, against $210.7 for GPT Image 2.5 at max quality.
Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Image lets you place elements with bounding boxes, edit one part of an image, use up to 10 references and render in 4K. Klein, the 5.6B open-weights version, starts at $0.008 per image, and its INT8 build runs on RTX GPUs with 8 GB of VRAM.
GPT Image 2.5, Nano Banana 2.1, Midjourney V8.2, Ideogram 4.5, Recraft V4.1, FLUX 3 Image Klein, Krea 3 and more: what each image generator is built for and what vendors publish about price, as of October 2026.
Production deployments of text-to-image generative systems have undergone a structural transition over the past two years. The classical convolutional U-Net architectures that powered Stable Diffusion 1.5 and Stable Diffusion XL have largely been superseded by transformer-based backbones. Modern open-weight models rely on Diffusion Transformers (DiT), Multimodal Diffusion Transformers (MMDiT), Linear DiTs, and Flow Matching formulations. Choosing an open-source text-to-image foundation model fo
AI presentation platform Gamma has acquired design startup Lica to establish an internal research division focused on multimodal communication and automated layout models. The deal brings Lica co-founders Priyaa Kalyanaraman and Purvanshi Mehta to Gamma to head the new research laboratory. Gamma reached a $2.1 billion valuation in November 2025 following a $68 million funding round, scaling its user base to more than 100 million accounts. The platform allows users to generate presentations, doc
OpenAI has added native transparent background generation to its GPT-Image-2 model via the developer API, enabling direct creation of PNG images with integrated alpha channels. The feature bypasses post-processing segmentation pipelines, allowing developers to generate isolated visual assets directly during the synthesis step. Direct Alpha Generation vs. Post-Processing Traditional visual asset pipelines rely on secondary background-removal models, such as semantic segmentation masks or matti
xAI released Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7 as the new Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and in the Grok iOS and Android apps. The model now sits second in the world on both major image leaderboards, behind only OpenAI's GPT-Image-2. On the Arena leaderboards as of August 7, the faster “low” variant of the model scores an Elo of 1,320 in the Text-to-Image Arena, trailing GPT-Image-2 at 1,380. In the Image Edit Arena it hits 1,439, again behind GPT-Image-2 at 1,463. The model is listed under
Google removed the AI image-generation feature from Google Earth on July 31, 2026, roughly 24 hours after switching it on for every user of the browser version. The company said it is "rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails." What shipped The feature launched on July 30, 2026. Bryan Horowitz, a product manager on Google Earth, described it as a "create image" button in Earth on the web: zoom to any location, type a prompt, and Nano Banana 2
