With more realistic images than before, GPT Image 1.5 fares reasonably well against Google's Nano Banana Pro in my testing. OpenAI still has some work to do.

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Alibaba’s Qwen team of AI researchers — already having a banner year with numerous powerful open source AI model releases — is now answering with its own alternative, Qwen-Image-2512, once again available freely for developers and even large enterprises for commercial purposes under a standard, permissive Apache 2.0 license.