GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst and Flare by @OpenAI are here, running almost 2x faster than GPT Image 2.5.

In the Text-to-Image Arena, Sunburst (Medium) is #2 with 1409 pts, and Flare (Medium) #4 with 1384 pts! By category, Sunburst landed #1 in Cartoon, Anime & Fantasy.

In the Image Edit Arena, Sunburst (Medium) is #3 with 1476 pts, and Flare (Medium) #5 with 1462 pts. See leaderboard in thread.

With this release, @OpenAI remains the #1 lab in both arenas and holds all top 5 Text-to-Image spots!

GPT Image 2.6 lands on Arena with enhanced speed. According to @OpenAI, Sunburst (Medium) and Flare (Medium) are more than 2x faster than GPT Image 2.5 while maintaining the lead over competing labs. They report similar quality to Image 2.5, with enhanced photorealism, greater editing consistency, and a dynamic reasoning level that enables latency as low as 5 seconds. Find more details at their blog linked below.

Congrats to the @OpenAI team on this release!