Secret AI Model Revealed! #1 On Image Generation Leaderboard

This week was a fun week. I’ve been watching the Hugging Face Leaderboard for image generation (as one does). Things bounce around a bit, but you generally see the usual suspects. Flux 1.1, Ideogram v2, Playground v3, Midjourney 6, etc.. All great models, and all of them have gotten better at incorporating text into generated images.

But this week was a bit different.

At the top, there was a secret “Red Panda” project that was #1 on the leaderboard.

Who was behind this new dominant model?

There was speculation that it could have been a Chinese company (given the “red panda” name).

Well, turns out, it wasn’t a Chinese company — it’s a company called Recraft, which is a startup building great image generation models for a while (full disclosure: I’m an investor in Recraft, just like I’m an investor in Playground, OpenAI and a bunch of other AI companies).

And, of course, I couldn’t resist adding support for Recraft v3 to agent.ai.

Here’s a sample:

As you can tell, it does a pretty good job with the text and a really good job with the overall professionalism of the image.

You can try it for yourself for free with the new agent:

https://agent.ai/agent/recraftimage

Hope you like it. All feedback appreciated.