I'd go out on a limb and say that even your praise of gpt-image-1 is underselling its true potential. This model is as remarkable as when ChatGPT first entered the market. People are sleeping on its capabilities. It's a replacement for ComfyUI and potentially most of Adobe in time.

Now for the bad part: I don't think Black Forest Labs, StabilityAI, MidJourney, or any of the others can compete with this. They probably don't have the money to train something this large and sophisticated. We might be stuck with OpenAI and Google (soon) for providing advanced multimodal image models.

Maybe we'll get lucky and one of the large Chinese tech companies will drop a model with this power. But I doubt it.

This might be the first OpenAI product with an extreme moat.

> Now for the bad part: I don't think Black Forest Labs, StabilityAI, MidJourney, or any of the others can compete with this.

Yeah. I'm a tad sad about it. I once thought the SD ecosystem proves open-source won when it comes to image gen (a naive idea, I know). It turns out big corps won hard in this regard.