OpenAI has released a new version of ChatGPT Images, powered by its latest image generation model. The update supports faster image creation—up to four times faster—and allows precise edits while maintaining important details. A new Images interface is also introduced within ChatGPT to simplify image creation and exploration.
Key Features
- Precise Edits: The model follows user instructions more reliably, changing only specified elements while preserving lighting, composition, and appearance. This supports accurate photo edits, consistent try-ons for clothing or hairstyles, and transformations that retain essential image details.
- Editing Options: Users can add, subtract, blend, combine, or transpose elements in an image without affecting its core content.
- Creative Transformations: The model can modify images by adding text, changing layouts, and applying stylistic filters. Presets allow users to explore these transformations without providing a written prompt.
- Instruction Following: The model maintains relationships between elements in both edits and original compositions, enabling more precise outputs.
- Text Rendering: The updated model handles denser and smaller text more accurately than previous versions.
- Additional Quality Improvements: Enhancements include improved rendering of small faces and more natural-looking images.
New Creation Space
ChatGPT now features a dedicated Images home, accessible via the mobile app sidebar and on chatgpt.com. This section includes preset filters and prompts to support rapid exploration and image generation. The presets are updated regularly to reflect new trends.
GPT Image 1.5 in API
The GPT Image 1.5 API includes the same improvements as ChatGPT Images. It provides stronger preservation of key visuals and logos, making it suitable for marketing, branding, and e-commerce product catalogs. Image generation and input/output processing are 20% cheaper compared to GPT Image 1, allowing more iterations within the same budget.
Performance and Limitations
Testing with examples from the initial launch shows measurable improvements, though results are not flawless. The update represents progress in image generation, with further refinements expected in future iterations.
Availability
The updated ChatGPT Images model is now available globally to all ChatGPT and API users. The earlier version of ChatGPT Images remains available as a custom GPT. The new Images interface is available for most users, with Business and Enterprise access scheduled for a later rollout.