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May 6, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Luma’s Uni‑1.1 API Launch: Third‑Place Ranking and Text Rendering Near GPT‑Image 2

Luma released the Uni‑1.1 image‑generation API, which ranks third on the Arena blind‑test leaderboard, offers sub‑half‑price per image, and demonstrates production‑grade capabilities such as multi‑reference fusion, multi‑turn editing, and a decoder‑only transformer that jointly models text and image tokens.