I Just Tested the World's #1 AI Image Generator (and It's Terrifyingly Good)

1.8 seconds. That's how long it took to generate a photorealistic 2K image that made me question everything I thought I knew about AI art.
I've been playing with AI image generators since DALL-E 2 first blew everyone's minds. I've subscribed to Midjourney, dabbled with Stable Diffusion, and paid for ChatGPT Plus just to access DALL-E 3. But ByteDance's Seedream 4.0, which quietly claimed the #1 spot on independent benchmarks last month, just changed the entire game.
And here's the kicker: it costs $0.03 per image, less than a third of what you'd pay with Midjourney.









