The pace of generative media has been wild this year. A few models stand out for image and video work, and it helps to know what each is actually good at.
Images
- GPT Image 2 — strong prompt adherence and, importantly, legible text inside images, which older diffusion models struggled with.
- Nano Banana — fast, great for quick iterations and keeping character/style consistent across edits.
Video
- Seedance 2.0 — text-to-video and image-to-video with noticeably smoother motion and better temporal consistency than last year's models.
If you'd rather not juggle separate APIs and dashboards, aggregators are handy — for example FastGen lets you generate images and video across several of these models from one place, which is convenient when you're comparing outputs for the same prompt.
A practical tip when evaluating any of these: run the same prompt through each model and keep a small grid of results. The differences in text rendering, hands, and motion become obvious fast.
What are you using for AI image and video generation right now?
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