DuckDuckGo just added AI image generation, and it's brilliant. While tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Gemini, and Leonardo AI have dominated the AI image generation space, DuckDuckGo now offers its own image creation tool. This means you can generate custom images on the fly while you're already using DuckDuckGo for searches.

With more realistic images than before, GPT Image 1.5 fares reasonably well against Google's Nano Banana Pro in my testing. OpenAI still has some work to do.

Looking for the best AI video to image generators? Here's a list of some of the better options out I found and tested.

Fal's new model FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo is a distilled, ultra-fast image generation model that’s already outperforming many of its larger rivals on public benchmarks, and is available now on Hugging Face, though very importantly: under a custom Black Forest non-commercial license.