gpt-image-1
Notable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.
Key facts
- Released
- Apr 23, 2025
- What it does
- Makes images: Creates pictures from a description, or edits them.
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- How
- For developers, through an API
- Announced as
- “Introducing our latest image generation model in the API”
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).
How it scores
From independent testers, never the lab's own claims.
- Pictures, by people's votes#49 of 78
- GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst1,428
- 2GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst1,406
- 48Krea 2 Turbo1,116
- 49gpt-image-11,115
- 50HiDream-O1-Image1,115
Source: LMArena · LMArena text-to-image
Compare gpt-image-1 with
It came out 29 days after 4o Image Generation, the lab's previous model.
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