Overview
- ChatGPT Images powered by GPT Image 1.5 is rolling out globally across Free, Go, Plus, Edu and Pro on web and mobile, with the model also live in the API.
- OpenAI claims up to 4x faster generation, stronger instruction following and targeted edits that preserve lighting, composition and facial likeness, with improved text rendering and better handling of many small faces.
- A dedicated Images tab adds preset styles, trending prompts, creative tools and an image library to streamline creation and iterative editing.
- Business and Enterprise customers are slated to get the full Images experience later, and reporting notes roughly 20% lower per‑image API costs versus the prior model.
- Coverage highlights a native multimodal architecture, an accelerated launch to counter Google’s advances, remaining limits with complex styles or multilingual text, and concerns about compute strain and photorealistic manipulation.