ChatGPT Images 2.5
Notable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.
OpenAI's new image tool, ChatGPT Images 2.5, creates and edits pictures inside ChatGPT and is not free to download.
Key facts
- Released
- Sep 8, 2026
- What it does
- Makes images: Creates pictures from a description, or edits them.
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- How
- Only in the maker's own app or website
- Announced as
- “Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5”
From trckr's archive of releases before it started watching. Date and details from Epoch AI's database of AI models (CC BY 4.0).
Compare ChatGPT Images 2.5 with
It came out 140 days after GPT Image 2, the lab's previous model.
The details
ChatGPT Images 2.5 is OpenAI's Image generator: A model that creates or edits pictures from a written description. and editing model, offered only as hosted access with no public API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet. and no download.
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