Models & Makers

This week

Three movers, one perk, one journal note. Same shape as the Monday email.

Week of 2026-09-13

Movers

  • large-v3 (STT · Proprietary): 4.23 (+3.7)
  • large-v3 (STT · Proprietary): 1.49 (+1)
  • large-v3 (STT · Proprietary): 1.15 (+0.6)

Full movers table · Methodology

Perk

Render$25,000. Render Scale Tier - $10K-$25K credits for unified cloud platform with auto-scaling. Sign in on /perks to unlock apply links.

Journal

GPT Image 2.5… vs MAI-Image-2.5 — Text-to-Image Generation — Compare GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max) vs MAI-Image-2.5 on Text-to-Image Generation benchmarks, scores, licensing, and use cases. Filed SUN 13 SEPT 2026.