#photorealism

'Microsoft launched MAI-Image-1, an in-house text-to-image model that reached LMArena Top-10 and is slated for integration with Copilot and Bing Image Creator, highlighting photorealism and low latency.'

A head-to-head test shows Google's 'Nano Banana' currently leads in speed and visual consistency for photoreal figurines, while ChatGPT, Qwen and Grok each offer strengths in instruction following, textures, and animation.