Granted, there’s some bias in this voting process. Artificial Analysis’ voters are AI enthusiasts, for the most part, and their choices might not reflect the preferences of the wider community of generative AI users.

But red_panda is also one of the better-performing models on the leaderboard in terms of its generation speed. The model takes a median of around 7 seconds to generate an image — over 100 times faster than OpenAI’s DALL-E 3.