ByteDance unveils new AI image model to rival Google DeepMind's 'Nano Banana'

12 altertable 3 9/17/2025, 12:10:03 PM scmp.com ↗

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vunderba · 12m ago
Seedream 4 is very impressive. On the image editing side, Seedream 4 scores extraordinarily highly placing 2 points higher even above Google's recently released NanoBanana on my GenAI Image Editor Comparison leaderboard.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing

An important callout is that it is able to handle significantly larger native resolutions without having to downscale before making edits. Unlike many other image-to-image GenAI models, which cap out around 1 MP, Seedream can handle images up to 4K resolution, and this means less overall image degradation.

It also has pretty decent text-to-image ability as well though gpt-image-1 is still the heavyweight in that category when strictly considering prompt adherence.

ThrowawayTestr · 2h ago
Anything like nano banana in terms of quality that can run locally?
vunderba · 18m ago
Nano Banana is still at the top of the class but there are two fairly decent image editor style models that you can run locally - Qwen Edit 20b [1] and Kontext Dev [2].

[1] https://docs.comfy.org/tutorials/image/qwen/qwen-image-edit

[2] https://docs.comfy.org/tutorials/flux/flux-1-kontext-dev