A hands-on comparison between the two shows how the latest image models differ on price, speed, and creative control.

I spent most of early 2026 rebuilding my visual content workflow from the ground up — not because the old system was failing, but because the gap between "fine results" and what the best AI image ...

Nano Banana 2 is Google's best AI image model yet, powered by Gemini 3.1 Flash Image and you can now use it for free on ...

The ability of generative AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini to generate images with impressive quality continues to amaze me, even though I've seen countless examples of how good these image ...

Google's Nano Banana 2 brings Pro-level world knowledge at Flash speed, with impressive text handling and subject consistency ...

Following the release of GPT-5.2 last week, OpenAI has begun rolling out a new image generation model. The company says the updated ChatGPT Images is four times faster than its predecessor. If you're ...

Black Forest Labs (BFL), the startup founded by the creators of the popular Stable Diffusion model, has launched a new image generation model called FLUX.1 Kontext. This model not only generates and ...

First open platform to benchmark AI image generators through head-to-head human voting with tamper-proof audit trail ...

The ChatGPT 4o image generation model is easily one of the best AI marketing gimmicks of the year, and a very useful feature. OpenAI released an advanced image generation model a few months ago (4o), ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

In the study titled MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer, a team of nearly 30 Apple researchers details a novel unified approach that enables both ...