ChatGPT Images 2: Why OpenAI Built a New Image Model After Killing Sora

A lot has changed in the AI industry in the four months since OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 1.5. We’ve seen a heated race to build agentic tools, an unprecedented deal with the Pentagon and unending AI slop

Now, OpenAI is back in the generative media game. The company announced on Tuesday that it’s releasing ChatGPT Images 2, its next-generation image model.

Left: an AI ad for a (fake) matcha shop in Brooklyn Heights. Right: an AI magazine cover mock up named Open SciFi

ChatGPT Images 2 is meant to create text-heavy designs, like in this matcha advertisement and fake magazine cover. 

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It may seem strange that OpenAI is releasing a new image model just a month after announcing the shuttering of its once-viral Sora AI video app in order to focus on building enterprise-ready “core products.” But it’s clear from how the new model was built that OpenAI isn’t backtracking on that goal. 

ChatGPT Images 2 is designed to produce text-heavy images, including infographics, scientific posters, study guides and marketing

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