Arena Trends: Text-to-Image, Jan 2026 – Apr 2026 For most of the year, @GoogleDeepMind and @OpenAI traded the top spot within a tight margin…

Arena Trends: Text-to-Image, Jan 2026 – Apr 2026 For most of the year, @GoogleDeepMind and @OpenAI traded the top spot within a tight margin - GPT-Image vs. Nano Banana - with the rest of the field clustered below 1,200. Today, GPT-Image-2 breaks away with a score of 1,512, 242 points ahead of #2 Google. The frontier continues to move. Media Exciting news - GPT-Image-2 by @OpenAI has claimed the #1 spot across all Image Arena leaderboards! A clean sweep with a record-breaking +242 point lead in Text-to-Image - the largest gap we’ve seen to date. - #1 Text-to-Image (1512), +242 over #2 (Nano-banana-2 with web-search a…

Source: OpenAI (X) | 2026-04-21