Google DeepMindImage modelSuperseded

Imagen 4

Google's photoreal text-to-image model with much better typography.

Image Generation

#14

of 20
13.0 pts behind #1

races led

weeks at #1

78.4

score

The 30-second version

Google's photoreal text-to-image model with much better typography.

Key takeaways

Current snapshot · illustrative scores · click any race to watch it

Imagen 4Best on each axis

Image Generation

#1 frontierImagen 4Grok ImagineQwen Image 2.1

The distilled version first; open any release for the deeper breakdown.

60-second briefing

Imagen 4, explained

AI video summary · placeholder render from the auto-written script

From Google's own guide, distilled

Structure prompts as persona, task, context and format; the format line is the most often forgotten.
Few-shot examples set the pattern; keep their formatting identical so the model copies structure, not noise.
Gemini reads images, video and PDFs natively, so attach the source instead of describing it.
Place media before the text instruction that refers to it.
Break complex jobs into a chain of smaller prompts and pass outputs forward.

About Google DeepMind

Google's AI lab behind Gemini, Veo, Imagen and Nano Banana.

Optimising for

Native multimodality (image, video, audio), very long context, science, and tight integration with Search, Workspace and Android.

London, UK / Mountain View, US · founded 2010

Closest rivals

Imagen 4 is 14th in image generation; leader is GPT Image 2.