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Text-to-Image Model Showdown: GPT-4o vs. Ideogram 3.0 vs. Reve 1.0

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Daniel Nest
Apr 03, 2025
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Last week was crazy y’all!

After months of relative calm on the text-to-image scene1, three top-tier image models suddenly rolled out within days of each other:

  1. Reve Image 1.0

  2. GPT-4o native image generation

  3. Ideogram 3.0

As if that wasn’t enough, Midjourney is also gearing up to release the long-awaited V7.

But while we wait for that, I wanted to put last week’s three “best” models through their paces.

It’s hard to grasp how quickly we went from diffusion models that could barely string a dozen words together in my spelling test…

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…to native image models that can effortlessly write entire pages of text inside an image.

Robot typing out an entire text on a typewriter - made by GPT-4o
Okay, so now you’re just showing off, GPT-4o!

Not so long ago, I wrote about the somewhat lengthy back-and-forth process of working on AI-generated cartoons for

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:

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But now, based on nothing but this short vague prompt…

Make a hilarious four-panel comic about our relationship with modern technology, relying on relatable tropes.

…GPT-4o comes up with the concept, lays out the four panels,…

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