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Google

Model evolution · 2023 – 2026
Models
10
Challenges
30
Takes
279
Evolution oldest → newest · 10 versions

How Google models have evolved

One model per node, oldest to newest, each with a sample of its work. These models do different jobs, like image, video, and upscaling, so the chip on each node names its mode. Compare versions within the same mode.

  1. 2023
    Google Upscaler
    Image Upscaling
    Dec 2023
  2. 2025
    no take
    Imagen 3.0 Generate 002
    Jan 2025
  3. 2025
    Imagen 4.0 Fast Generate 001
    Text-to-Image
    Aug 2025
  4. 2025
    Imagen 4.0 Generate 001
    Text-to-Image
    Aug 2025
  5. 2025
    Imagen 4.0 Ultra Generate 001
    Text-to-Image
    Aug 2025
  6. 2025
    Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
    Text-to-Image
    Oct 2025
  7. 2025
    Veo 3.1 Fast
    Text-to-Video
    Oct 2025
  8. 2025
    Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview
    Text-to-Image
    Nov 2025
  9. 2026
    Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview
    Text-to-Image
    Feb 2026
  10. 2026
    no take
    Latest
    Veo 3.1 Lite
    Mar 2026
Smarter every release 9 models

Intelligence over time

How Google's models have grown more capable over time. Each point is one of their models at its release date and arena Elo, oldest to newest.

  • Imagen 4.0 Fast Generate 001
  • Imagen 4.0 Generate 001
  • Imagen 4.0 Ultra Generate 001
  • Nano Banana
  • Nano Banana 2
  • Nano Banana Pro
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Every challenge, side by side

Each model's take on every challenge in this mode. Modes use different challenges and prompts, so pick one mode at a time; each view stands on its own.

Text-to-Image 17 Image Editing 10 Text-to-Video 2 Image Upscaling 1
Challenge 2 challenges ↓ · 1 model →
Veo 3.1 Fast
Oct 2025
Text-to-Video

The Soul Gauntlet

1/1 · 1 take
Text-to-Video

The Soul Gauntlet

This is one of the hardest remaining frontiers in 2026 video generation; testing whether models can convey genuine human emotion through subtle facial acting, realistic tear physics, and micro-expressions. While many models can create beautiful faces, very few can deliver emotionally convincing performances without looking uncanny or robotic.

Prompt
“Extreme cinematic close-up of a beautiful young woman experiencing deep, raw emotion. Her expression slowly shifts from quiet sorrow to intense cathartic crying — realistic skin texture with visible pores, subtle muscle twitches, glistening tears forming in her eyes and rolling down her cheeks, red-rimmed eyes with natural blinking and micro-expressions of pain and release. Soft dramatic side lighting with gentle rim light highlighting the tears, very shallow depth of field, slight emotional camera push-in during the emotional peak, photorealistic, 8K, intricate skin and eye details, filmic color grading, subtle film grain.”
Judged on
  • Facial Micro-Expressions & Emotion
  • Skin
  • Eye & Tear Realism
  • Emotional Arc & Timing
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Text-to-Video

The Rubik's Gauntlet

1/1 · 1 take
Text-to-Video

The Rubik's Gauntlet

This prompt is one of the hardest single tests for 2026 SOTA video models because it simultaneously demands extreme fine-motor precision at high speed, long-term physical consistency (the cube must genuinely solve without morphing), and complex multi-element rendering (hyper-detailed skin, sweat, glossy reflections, and dynamic camera movement). Areas where even top models still frequently break down.

Prompt
“Hyper-realistic cinematic close-up of a professional speedcuber solving a 3x3 Rubik's Cube at world-record pace. His hands move with insane precision and blistering speed — fingers flying across the glossy colored faces in a complex sequence of advanced algorithms, rapid twists, and smooth layer turns. The cube rotates with perfect realistic physics, slight motion blur on fast turns, and flawless color consistency as it progresses toward a solved state. Subtle sweat glistening on skin, visible veins, hyper-detailed fingerprints and nail textures. Intense focused facial expression with micro-expressions of concentration in shallow depth of field. Dramatic cinematic side lighting with strong specular highlights and reflections dancing across the cube surfaces and skin. Smooth slow orbiting camera that circles the hands and cube, capturing every intricate finger movement from dynamic angles. Photorealistic, 8K, subtle film grain, anamorphic lens flare, moody intense atmosphere, 24fps.”
Judged on
  • Finger Dexterity & Anatomy
  • Cube Physics & Color Consistency
  • Cinematic Quality & Details
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