OpenAI’s September 8 release of ChatGPT Images 2.5, featuring GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and Sunburst variants, drives the 80.5% market-implied odds by delivering sharper details, up to 50% lower latency, stronger multi-turn editing, and top rankings on major text-to-image arenas for prompt adherence and text rendering. This closed-model update extended OpenAI’s lead over competitors in blind preference evaluations. Ideogram 4.0, released in June with strong open-weight text and layout capabilities, sits at 31.1% as the next notable contender. Google’s Nano Banana family and models from Reve, Microsoft, and Recraft trail further behind amid rapid iteration cycles typical in large language model image generation. Traders are watching for any late-November updates before resolution.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · UpdatedOpenAI 81%
Reve 8.0%
Google 5.1%
Recraft 3.5%

OpenAI
81%

Reve
8%

5%

Recraft
3%

ByteDance
3%

Tencent
3%

Microsoft AI
3%

Ideogram
7%

Alibaba
8%

Meta
1%

SpaceXAI
1%

Luma AI
1%

Black Forest Labs
1%
OpenAI 81%
Reve 8.0%
Google 5.1%
Recraft 3.5%

OpenAI
81%

Reve
8%

5%

Recraft
3%

ByteDance
3%

Tencent
3%

Microsoft AI
3%

Ideogram
7%

Alibaba
8%

Meta
1%

SpaceXAI
1%

Luma AI
1%

Black Forest Labs
1%
Results from the "Rank" column under the "Text-to-Image Arena" Leaderboard tab at https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image (Overall) filtered for "Models" will be used to resolve this market.
Note: Models marked “AutoEval” at the applicable check time will not be considered, regardless of whether they display a rank or score.
Models will be ordered primarily by their leaderboard rank at the market’s check time. If two or more models are tied on rank, they will be ordered by which model is listed higher on the leaderboard. If a tie still remains, alphabetical order of company names as listed in this market group will be used as a final tiebreaker (e.g., “Google” would be ranked ahead of “SpaceXAI”). This market will resolve based on the company that occupies first place under this ranking.
The resolution source for this market is the arena.ai Text-to-Image Arena Leaderboard. If this resolution source is unavailable at check time, this market will remain open until the leaderboard comes back online and will resolve based on the first check after it becomes available. If it becomes permanently unavailable, this market will resolve to "Other".
Market Opened: Sep 17, 2026, 8:15 PM ET
Resolver
0x69c47De9D...Results from the "Rank" column under the "Text-to-Image Arena" Leaderboard tab at https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image (Overall) filtered for "Models" will be used to resolve this market.
Note: Models marked “AutoEval” at the applicable check time will not be considered, regardless of whether they display a rank or score.
Models will be ordered primarily by their leaderboard rank at the market’s check time. If two or more models are tied on rank, they will be ordered by which model is listed higher on the leaderboard. If a tie still remains, alphabetical order of company names as listed in this market group will be used as a final tiebreaker (e.g., “Google” would be ranked ahead of “SpaceXAI”). This market will resolve based on the company that occupies first place under this ranking.
The resolution source for this market is the arena.ai Text-to-Image Arena Leaderboard. If this resolution source is unavailable at check time, this market will remain open until the leaderboard comes back online and will resolve based on the first check after it becomes available. If it becomes permanently unavailable, this market will resolve to "Other".
Resolver
0x69c47De9D...OpenAI’s September 8 release of ChatGPT Images 2.5, featuring GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and Sunburst variants, drives the 80.5% market-implied odds by delivering sharper details, up to 50% lower latency, stronger multi-turn editing, and top rankings on major text-to-image arenas for prompt adherence and text rendering. This closed-model update extended OpenAI’s lead over competitors in blind preference evaluations. Ideogram 4.0, released in June with strong open-weight text and layout capabilities, sits at 31.1% as the next notable contender. Google’s Nano Banana family and models from Reve, Microsoft, and Recraft trail further behind amid rapid iteration cycles typical in large language model image generation. Traders are watching for any late-November updates before resolution.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · Updated
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