Over 34 billion (yes, with a B) AI images are created every day, according to What's the Big Data. So bad is the commodification of the market, that many AI image generators are now free of charge. If those numbers sound crazy, it’s because they are. Especially when you remember the market only started properly less than two years ago.
Meanwhile, this bonanza is a huge win for users across the world. Image quality has rocketed upwards at the same time as prices have plummeted. So we thought it was time to take a look at four random generators, including two we skipped during our last 7-way competition.
Here we're testing Imagen 3 from Google DeepMind, Flux from Black Forest Labs, Ideogram 2.0 and, as a reference, newer versions of the veteran open-source StableDiffusion models.
