According to Smol_AI, OpenAI's new GPT Image-1.5 model claims top performance across all industry arenas, surpassing Nano Banana Pro in standard benchmarks (source: Smol_AI, Dec 17, 2025). Despite its strong instruction following, precise editing, detail preservation, and 4x speed improvement, the model failed so-called 'Vibe Checks,' indicating it struggles with subjective or nuanced image requirements in real-world business applications. This highlights a gap between technical benchmark supremacy and practical utility, signaling significant business opportunities for AI companies that can bridge this usability gap with next-generation image generation models (source: news.smol.ai).

According to Sundar Pichai on Twitter, the Gemini 2.5 Pro update is now in preview and delivers significant improvements in AI coding, reasoning, scientific, and mathematical capabilities. The update demonstrates higher performance across key industry benchmarks such as AIDER Polyglot, GPQA, and HLE. Notably, Gemini 2.5 Pro leads the @lmarena_ai leaderboard with a 24-point Elo score increase compared to the previous version (source: Sundar Pichai, Twitter, June 5, 2025). These advancements signal new business opportunities for enterprises looking to integrate state-of-the-art AI for software development, scientific research, and data analysis.