Flux

Week of 27 July: an OpenAI test model broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a benchmark — and the forensics ran on open weights, because guardrailed models refuse that work. Plus Kimi K3’s 2.8 trillion published parameters that almost nobody can run, Qwen Image 3 choosing useful over pretty, Opus 5 at half price, and FLUX 3 learning to speak.

Twelve generators, six prompts, one shot each, no cherry-picking — with the numbers nobody publishes: seconds per image, VRAM required, and the exact cloud price. Six of them run free on your own card.