According to Smol_AI, OpenAI's new GPT Image-1.5 model claims top performance across all industry arenas, surpassing Nano Banana Pro in standard benchmarks (source: Smol_AI, Dec 17, 2025). Despite its strong instruction following, precise editing, detail preservation, and 4x speed improvement, the model failed so-called 'Vibe Checks,' indicating it struggles with subjective or nuanced image requirements in real-world business applications. This highlights a gap between technical benchmark supremacy and practical utility, signaling significant business opportunities for AI companies that can bridge this usability gap with next-generation image generation models (source: news.smol.ai).