GPT Image 1.5
Balanced illustration and reliable prompt fidelity.
The premise
This is not a leaderboard. It is a craft table.
Give the same strange brief to five image models. Look for taste, coherence, material intelligence, and the moments where a model surprises us.
The format
10 rounds
× 5 models
× 1 shared prompt
The first seven rounds are loaded here. The deck stays useful while the lab keeps cooking.
The contenders
Same heat.
Different instincts.
GPT Image 2
Newest OpenAI contender. Clean composition with richer detail.
Gemini 3 Pro
Composition-first. Strong at layered concepts and legible worlds.
Gemini 3.1 Flash
Fast, fluent, and unusually willing to make a complete image.
Grok Imagine
High-energy visual improvisation. Loves the bold gesture.
The board
Where we are.
07
rounds loaded
31
active deck images
05
models in the mix
03
archive images retained
| Provider | Round 01 | Round 02 | Round 03 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI 1.5 | |||
| OpenAI 2 | |||
| Gemini 3 Pro | |||
| Gemini 3.1 Flash | |||
| Grok Imagine |
Bars are visual pacing, not a scientific score. Rounds 01 and 04–07 have five contenders; Rounds 02–03 retain the three loaded provider sets.
Round 01 / The opening image challenge
Same brief.
Five instincts.
A vivid sunrise over layered mountains. One prompt, five model signatures, and no scientific score pretending to be taste.
Round 01
IMAGE / SUNRISEsame brief · five instincts
Judge's notes / 01
The best image makes the brief feel inevitable—not merely obeyed.
- OpenAI 1.5: balanced, clean, easy to read.
- OpenAI 2: the richest detail in the first pass.
- Gemini Pro: most composed visual sentence.
- Gemini Flash: fastest to a complete answer.
- Grok: strongest sideways gesture.
Round 02 / One ingredient, three worlds
Beetroot
goes cosmic.
One humble ingredient becomes fine dining, a surreal landscape, and a tattoo emblem in one frame.
Round 02
BEET / WORLDone ingredient · three worlds
Judge's notes / 02
Gemini Pro understood the assignment as a single visual sentence.
- Grok finds the weirdest beetroot mythology.
- Pro gives each world its own visual grammar.
- Flash keeps the whole idea readable at a glance.
Round 03 / The impossible texture
Make dessert
feel touchable.
Glass, velvet, smoke, polished metal, and melting ice. No collage. No excuses.
Round 03
TEXTURE / DESSERTmaterial realism under pressure
Judge's notes / 03
The boundary between food and object gets deliciously unstable.
- Grok pushes into fashion-editorial surrealism.
- Pro keeps the object architectural and legible.
- Flash makes the material stack easiest to read.
Round 04 / Mythical street food
Street food
gets mythic.
A dragon-fruit taco, a rainy neon market, and one shared brief. Can five models invent a world without losing the food?
Round 04
FOOD / NIGHT MARKETmythical street food
Judge's notes / 04
The brief works when the food stays food inside the fantasy.
- Score the food first: is the taco still the subject?
- Reward a single market world over a pile of effects.
- Look for motivated light, readable scale, and a memorable gesture.
Round 05 / American traditional flash
Old school.
No shortcuts.
Six iconic designs on one sheet: panther, eagle, dagger, rose, swallow, and heart. Bold linework is the whole point.
Round 05
TATTOO / FLASHline, fill, silhouette
Judge's notes / 05
A flash sheet is a test of subtraction.
- Can each design stand alone at a glance?
- Are line weights, fills, and negative space tattooable?
- Does the sheet share a visual language without becoming repetitive?
Round 06 / Specular control
Make the light
behave.
Glass, chrome, liquid, and hard specular light. No cinematic fog to hide the physics.
Round 06
PHOTO / MACROoptics under pressure
Judge's notes / 06
The camera is honest when the materials disagree correctly.
- Glass needs thickness, edges, and believable refraction.
- Chrome should reflect a world—not become gray plastic.
- Liquid gets points for gravity, meniscus, and surface tension.
Round 07 / The edible impossible
Build a city
out of lunch.
Sugar-glass vaults, pastry buttresses, ramen bridges, chocolate terraces, and a waterfall of honey. One building. One world.
Round 07
ARCHITECTURE / FOODthe edible impossible
Judge's notes / 07
We asked for surreal. The winner still needs load-bearing logic.
- Reward food that performs structure, not surface decoration.
- Look for entrances, circulation, inhabitants, and a stable silhouette.
- Penalize collage, tabletop scale, and disconnected ingredients.
The next heat
Three more
ways to break it.
08 · Ink That Readsqueued
09 · After the Rainqueued
10 · Mixing Bowl Civilizationqueued
11 · Current Through the Gardenbrief ready
12 · The Impossible Seambrief ready
Live challenge logcoming next
How to judge
Taste is a
stack of choices.
| Axis | Question | What wins |
|---|---|---|
| Brief fidelity | Did it actually take the challenge? | Specificity without clutter |
| Visual intelligence | Does the composition make a decision? | A clear point of view |
| Material truth | Do surfaces behave convincingly? | Texture you can almost feel |
| Surprise | Did it find a door we missed? | Strangeness with control |
Current read
No single model wins every kitchen.
OpenAI 2 brings detail, Gemini Pro builds the most composed worlds, Flash reaches a complete answer quickly, and Grok keeps finding the sideways idea. The interesting part is the disagreement.
The real winner is the brief that exposes a difference.
The reveal continues
MasterAI
is still cooking.
Ten rounds. Seven are now loaded. One public lab notebook for model taste.
MasterAI.jimmys.tools
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