Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Retail and Logistics

Virtual Try-on and Visual Product Search

Lets shoppers see products on themselves and search the catalogue with a photo.

Named Models

The research names no model for this use case.

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Models the research names for this use case. Research, with sources on each model record.

Who Runs It

No deployment is recorded for this use case.

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Documented uses by named organisations. The evidence column says who made the claim.

Candidate Models

Artificial Analysis Text-to-Image Arena: AA Text-to-Image Arena, overall

A general benchmark for this model class, not a test on this use case. Elo from blind pairwise preference votes on text-to-image outputs. Higher is better. Elo has no zero, so the axis starts at 1,000. Showing 10 of 26.

OpenAIGPT Image 2.5 SunburstOpenAI independent1,198OpenAIGPT Image 2.5 FlareOpenAI independent1,191OpenAIGPT Image 2OpenAI independent1,171Google DeepMindNano Banana 2.1Google DeepMind, Google independent1,160SpaceXAI (xAI)Grok Imagine Image 2.0SpaceXAI (xAI) independent1,156Microsoft AIMAI-Image-2.6Microsoft AI independent1,151MetaMuse ImageMeta independent1,116Black Forest LabsFLUX 3 ImageBlack Forest Labs independent1,115OpenAIGPT Image 1.5OpenAI independent1,107GoogleNano Banana 2 LiteGoogle independent1,095
1,0001,1501,300
GoogleEmbeddingGemma 2Google, embeddingReleasedOct 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsAlibaba (Qwen)Qwen-Image-2.1Alibaba (Qwen), image generationReleasedSep 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsNVIDIANemotron-3-Embed-8BNVIDIA, embeddingReleasedJul 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsIdeogramIdeogram 4.0Ideogram, image generationReleasedJun 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsMicrosoft AIharrier-oss-v1-0.6bMicrosoft AI, embeddingReleasedMar 2026open weightsIndonesian statedlast 18 monthsJina AIjina-embeddings-v5-text-smallJina AI, embeddingReleasedFeb 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsZ.ai (Zhipu)GLM-ImageZ.ai (Zhipu), image generationReleasedJan 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsAlibaba (Qwen)Z-Image TurboAlibaba (Qwen), image generationReleasedNov 2025open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsBlack Forest LabsFLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs, image generationReleasedNov 2025open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsBlack Forest LabsFLUX.2 [klein] 4BBlack Forest Labs, image generationReleasedNov 2025open weightshas scoreslast 18 months

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Derived, not researched: models in the directory whose class matches a class this use case uses, excluding family records and models shut down or deprecated. Ranked by how many fit facts they meet, then by release date. Each fit fact is read from the model record.

Sources

  1. deloitte.com/content/dam/assets-zone3/us/en/docs/services/... https://www.deloitte.com/content/dam/assets-zone3/us/en/docs/services/consulting/2026/ai-use-cases-consumer-2026.pdf
  2. cloud.google.com/transform/101-real-world-generative-ai-use-ca... https://cloud.google.com/transform/101-real-world-generative-ai-use-cases-from-industry-leaders

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Virtual Try-on and Visual Product Search", https://aurion.semai.id/usecases/ret-virtual-try-on-visual-search/, records of October 2026.