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Cloud wave

Cloud Wave · 2026-08-02

A 1,104-call hosted-image stress and variance campaign across MiniMax, Grok Imagine, and GPT Image 2.

1,102 successful artifacts. Two recorded failures. Nothing discarded.

This cloud-only campaign exercised ten provider arms across 44 experiment/model cells. It intentionally concentrated depth on MiniMax Image-01 before its daily subscription reset while retaining N=3 screening controls from Grok Imagine and GPT Image 2 Low, Medium, and High.

Provider armSuccessful artifacts
MiniMax Image-011,006
Grok Imagine36
GPT Image 2 Medium12
GPT Image 2 Low24
GPT Image 2 High24
Total1,102

The two unsuccessful MiniMax calls remain in the public run catalog as explicit failure records. Every successful original is preserved with its byte count and SHA-256 digest. Ten source ledgers are independently bound into the wave manifest.

Interpretation boundary

This is expanded variance and throughput evidence, not a global provider leaderboard. MiniMax has much deeper sampling than the control arms. N=3 control cells are screening evidence; cross-provider rankings require balanced repetitions and independent visual grading.

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