Re:Introducing Images 2.6
by vunderba on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:51PM
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There have been a lot of strides in open-weight models, well beyond SDXL. Flux, back in August of 2024 was a game changer, finally allowing us to move past SDXL’s nuclear pile of comma-delimited keywords for prompting and allowing more natural language.
And this summer we got Ideogram V4 and Krea2, both of which are highly capable.
You can see how the open/closed models have advanced since SDXL in the Progress tab.
MJ is pretty out-of-date by this point though it can still be fun from an image space exploration perspective. It scored a rather pitiful 2 out of 15 on my bench back in the summer of 2025.
And this summer we got Ideogram V4 and Krea2, both of which are highly capable. You can see how the open/closed models have advanced since SDXL in the Progress tab.
https://genai-showdown.specr.net
MJ is pretty out-of-date by this point though it can still be fun from an image space exploration perspective. It scored a rather pitiful 2 out of 15 on my bench back in the summer of 2025.