In my personal experience, Gemini seems to have the best image editing and creation capabilities but when it comes to coding, Claude is my favorite. However, Claude is slow and errors out for me often. Grok is also very good when it comes to coding but I seek to run into their rate limits much easier, so I don't use it.
Subjectively, OpenAI's image generation is the only one that consistently works for me and renders what I describe in the way I describe it at an acceptable level of quality. I don't understand how NB gets so much credit compared to what OpenAI is offering.
My comment regarding Google victory was not related to the merits of its current tooling. But to me, it is the only company with already established cash cows. and its speed of adaptation shows that it is not left behind for very long by competitors in delivering state of the art LLM models.
I only use free web version for all btw.