Discover how Step1X-Edit is revolutionizing open-source image editing, closing the gap with proprietary models like GPT-4o and Gemini2 Flash using innovative multimodal approaches. • Can open-source image editing truly rival closed-source solutions? • What role do Multimodal Large Language Models play in advanced image manipulation? • How does Step1X-Edit achieve instruction-faithful image editing? • What innovations make Step1X-Edit stand out from existing open-source baselines? • How does the GEdit-Bench benchmark ensure more authentic evaluation of image editing models?