Z.ai's Open Source Glm-image Beats Google's Nano Banana Pro at Complex Text Rendering, but Not Aesthetics

In a significant development, the two big stories of ai in 2026 so far have been the incredible rise in usage and praise for anthropic's claude code and a similar huge boost in user adoption for google's gemini 3 ai model family released late last year — the latter of which includes nano banana pro (also known as gemini 3 pro image), a powerful, fast, and flexible image generation model that renders complex, text-heavy infographics quickly and accurately, making it an excellent fit for enterprise use (think: collateral, trainings, onboarding, stationary, etc). This story has implications for readers interested in understanding the broader context of current events.