A mysterious new image generation model has emerged, dubbed "red_panda," and is impressing crowdsourced benchmark Artificial Analysis with its performance. The model outshines top contenders Midjourney, Black Forest Labs, and OpenAI on the text-to-image leaderboard, taking a median 7 seconds to generate an image. While the origin of red_panda remains unknown, AI labs often use community benchmarks to build anticipation before announcing new models.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/28/a-mysterious-new-image-generation-model-has-appeared/