OpenAI's unreleased image generation model GPT-Image-2 appeared on LM Arena under tape-themed codenames. The first wave was pulled within hours, but duct-tape variants resurfaced in mid-April in Battle Mode.
Overview of Alibaba’s Z-Image and how it compares to FLUX and Stable Diffusion. A 6B-parameter model that runs on low VRAM and ranks first among open-source models.
