Pangram releases Image 1.0 and Flash 1.0 for AI image and video detection

Details

Pangram releases Image 1.0 and Image Flash 1.0, claiming state-of-the-art performance in detecting frontier AI-generated images and videos.
Image 1.0 achieves 99.96% accuracy on a synthetic mirror test set of 1,200 images created from 100 real photos using 12 frontier generators.
Image Flash 1.0 scores 98.7% on the DF26 academic benchmark, a 29-point improvement over the next best detector, and supports native video upload with frame-by-frame analysis.
The release includes a Chrome extension for real-time detection in social feeds and an updated API supporting both image and video inputs.

Technical Capabilities and Limits

Image 1.0 provides heatmap output to localize AI content and is robust to edits, compression, and low resolutions.
Minimum image resolution support is lowered from 512x512 to 256x256, with a reduced confidence disclaimer applied to results below 512 pixels.
Video detection uses a synthetic mirror evaluation method where AI videos are generated from real video frames to prevent bias toward specific content types.