Midjourney has a new challenger for the best AI image generator but nobody has heard of it before
Midjourney has a new challenger for the title of best AI image generator, and it’s a model nobody has heard of before.
The AI image generator in question is called “red_panda” and is currently top of the crowdsourced Artificial Analysis rankings for text-to-image generation. Artificial Analysis’ arena leaderboard is created by giving users the choice between two images and asking them which one they prefer. It’s all down to a matter of taste but as it stands red_panda has a 79% win rate beating out rivals like Black Forest Labs, Ideogram, and Midjourney.
So what is red_panda you ask? Well, no one actually knows but Artificial Analysis can be a great way to test AI models before launching to the general public and this may be the case here. The name of the AI could give us a hint, however, after all, red pandas are found in the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. Could this AI image generation model be a new contender from a large Chinese company?
And now I'm off to go check that out cause this is the first time I'm hearing about it. 🏃♂️
But wait, is it free?