Mystery 'Flow-State' Image Models Appear on LMArena Leaderboard — Anthropic Connection Speculated

r/singularity·low signal

Anonymous image generation models labeled 'flow-state-2' and 'flow-state-3' appeared on LMArena's text-to-image leaderboard, sparking speculation about an Anthropic connection given April 2026 reports of image generation code found in Claude Desktop binaries. The models are performing competitively against established generators. Unverified from a single source — but if Anthropic is quietly benchmarking an image model, it would be their first entry into generation (not just vision). Watch for an official announcement.