If I had a nickel for every model card, repo, or spec posted here that had zero samples of the actual output, I could probably start financing a rack of MI455Xs.
OpenAI does surprisingly well in this regard with their blog posts, and I'm more of an Anthropic fanboy. I wish most tech releases for AI were as well done as OpenAIs they actually showcase what they've built, honestly, if I had to compare it to another company, I wouldn't be surprised if former Apple employees are doing OpenAI's press briefings. Whoever does press briefings at Apple, they are worth their weight in gold.
gpt-2-image has such a yellow tinge though. It stands out badly on nearly any screen. The image quality is great otherwise, but I generally prefer nano banana for its color balance.
True but it’s at least addressable with some basic tone-mapping changes. It’s easier to correct an issue like this than to deal with an image that simply doesn’t follow your prompt.
Here's a quick trend of the "piss filter" in the gpt image series:
As I’ve said before, I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in Arena’s scoring system. They have MAI Image 2.5 ranked above Gemini Nano Banana Pro, and maybe that’s true on paper but good luck using it. Microsoft’s censorship makes Google feel like the wild west by comparison.
They also have Meta’s Muse Image ranked above NB Pro, which is just patently absurd. In my own GenAI benchmark it only managed a lackluster 7 passes out of 15. Even the open‑weight Ideogram 4 scored higher than that.
For reference, here’s GPT‑Image‑2, NB Pro, and Muse compared:
Given that Qwen Image 2 didn’t even get an open-weight release, I really doubt we’re going to see any kind of open release for it. They seem to have completely shifted over to proprietary models sadly.
Pretty annoying user experience trying to test out the model on the official Qwen site. You get an immediate popup with "Security Notice: For security purposes, please add a payment method" that blocks you from clicking anywhere.
Honestly if you're launching a new model, you should probably just make it free for the 24 hours after launch so people can test it out. Otherwise just wait till it's on openrouter.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989701
I am not a Sam Altman fan, but I do give him credit where its due, their press briefings are chef's kiss.
https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image
However, cost is significantly lower in this case. A Pro image here is $0.04, a gpt-2-image high is $0.21 and lower resolution.
Here's a quick trend of the "piss filter" in the gpt image series:
https://imgpb.com/vCZidh
They also have Meta’s Muse Image ranked above NB Pro, which is just patently absurd. In my own GenAI benchmark it only managed a lackluster 7 passes out of 15. Even the open‑weight Ideogram 4 scored higher than that.
For reference, here’s GPT‑Image‑2, NB Pro, and Muse compared:
https://genai-showdown.specr.net/?models=nbp,g2,mi
If these were processors, I wouldn’t spend another hundred on the faster one…
Why would they want to deal with the amount of bad press they'll get for unsavory porn? Look at what happened to Grok.
on the right-hand side, it says:
"Version Tag: MAJOR
Open Source: No
Updated: Jul 20, 2026"
Honestly if you're launching a new model, you should probably just make it free for the 24 hours after launch so people can test it out. Otherwise just wait till it's on openrouter.
Qwen lost some key people after 3.6 and it looks like we're seeing the consequences of that, or perhaps the cause.