The new ChatGPT Images is here

The new ChatGPT Images is here | OpenAI

December 16, 2025

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The new ChatGPT Images is here

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Today, we’re releasing a new version of ChatGPT Images⁠, powered by our new flagship image generation model. Now, whether you’re creating something from scratch or editing a photo, you’ll get the output you’re picturing. It makes precise edits while keeping details intact, and generates images up to 4x faster. Alongside, we’re introducing a new Images feature⁠ within ChatGPT, designed to make image generation delightful—to spark inspiration and make creative exploration effortless.

The new Images model is rolling out today in ChatGPT for all users, and is available in the API as GPT Image 1.5. The new Images experience in ChatGPT is also rolling out today for most users, with Business and Enterprise access coming later.

Precise edits that preserve what matter

Now, when you ask for edits to an uploaded image, the model adheres to your intent more reliably—down to the small details—changing only what you ask for while keeping elements like lighting, composition, and people’s appearance consistent across inputs, outputs, and subsequent edits.

This unlocks results that match your intent—more useful photo edits, more believable clothing and hairstyle try-ons, alongside stylistic filters and conceptual transformations that retain the essence of the original image. Together, these improvements mean ChatGPT can act as a creative studio in your pocket, capable of both practical edits and expressive reimaginings.

Editing

The model excels at different types of editing—including adding, subtracting, combining, blending, and transposing—so you get the changes you want without losing what makes the image special.

Combine the two men and the dog in a 2000s film camera-style photo of them looking bored at a kids birthday party.

Add chaotic kids in the background throwing things and screaming.

Change the man on the left to a hand-drawn retro anime style, the dog to plushie style, keep the man on the right and background scenery the way they are.

Put them all in OpenAI sweaters that look like this.

Now remove the two men, just keep the dog, and put them in an OpenAI livestream that looks like the attached image.

Creative transformations

The model’s creativity shines through transformations that change and add elements—like text and layout—to bring ideas to life, while preserving important details. These transformations work for both simple and more intricate concepts, and are easy to try using preset styles and ideas in the new ChatGPT Images⁠ feature—no written prompt required.

Make an old school golden age hollywood movie poster of a movie called 'codex' from the image of these two men. feel free to change their costumes to fit the times

Change the names of the actors to Wojciech Zaremba (left) and Greg Brockman (right)

Directed by Sam Altman, produced by Fidji Simo. A Feel the AGI Pictures Production.

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Instruction following

The model follows instructions more reliably than our initial version. This enables more precise edits as well as more intricate original compositions, where relationships between elements are preserved as intended.

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draw a 6x6 grid

Make a 6 (columns) by 6 (rows) grid grid of:

Row 1: the Greek letter beta, a beach ball, a lemon, a robot, a fish tank, a frog

Row 2: a praying mantis, an expensive watch, a baththub, a pair of sunglasses, a colorful butterfly, an envelope

Row 3: a stamp, a picture frame, a steaming dumpling, the word "miracle", a pair of skis, the letter Z

Row 4: a toilet, a subway token, a mute icon, a bottle of perfume, a dragonfly, a skateboard helmet

Row 5: a Bluetooth icon, the number 13, a green heart, a rubik's cube, a Canada goose, a soldier's helmet

Row 6: a white dog, a life jacket, a knot, a keyboard, a tissue box, the number 14

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draw a 6x6 grid

Make a 6 (columns) by 6 (rows) grid grid of:

Row 1: the Greek letter beta, a beach ball, a lemon, a robot, a fish tank, a frog

Row 2: a praying mantis, an expensive watch, a baththub, a pair of sunglasses, a colorful butterfly, an envelope

Row 3: a stamp, a picture frame, a steaming dumpling, the word "miracle", a pair of skis, the letter Z

Row 4: a toilet, a subway token, a mute icon, a bottle of perfume, a dragonfly, a skateboard helmet

Row 5: a Bluetooth icon, the number 13, a green heart, a rubik's cube, a Canada goose, a soldier's helmet

Row 6: a white dog, a life jacket, a knot, a keyboard, a tissue box, the number 14

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Text rendering

The model takes another step ahead in text rendering, capable of handling denser and smaller text.

There is a newspaper on a desk. The newspaper shows the markdown below laid out as a natural newspaper article. Preserve all content, formatting, and numbers exactly. The image should be tall.

Introducing GPT‑5.2

*The most advanced frontier model for professional work and long-running agents*

December 11, 2025

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We are introducing GPT‑5.2, the most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work.

Already, the average ChatGPT Enterprise user says AI saves them 40–60 minutes a day, and heavy users say it saves them more than 10 hours a week. We designed GPT‑5.2 to unlock even more economic value for people; it’s better at creating spreadsheets, building presentations, writing code, perceiving images, understanding long contexts, using tools, and handling complex, multi-step projects.

GPT‑5.2 sets a new state of the art across many benchmarks, including GDPval, where it outperforms industry professionals at well-specified knowledge work tasks spanning 44 occupations.

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Benchmark highlights

| Benchmark | Domain | GPT‑5.2 Thinking | GPT‑5.1 Thinking |

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| GDPval (wins or ties) | Knowledge work tasks | 70.9% | 38.8% (GPT‑5) |

| SWE-Bench Pro (public) | Software engineering | 55.6% | 50.8% |

| SWE-bench Verified | Software engineering | 80.0% | 76.3% |

| GPQA Diamond (no tools) | Science questions | 92.4% | 88.1% |

| CharXiv Reasoning (w/ Python) | Scientific figure questions | 88.7% | 80.3% |

| AIME 2025 (no tools) | Competition math | 100.0% | 94.0% |

| FrontierMath (Tier 1–3) | Advanced mathematics | 40.3% | 31.0% |

| FrontierMath (Tier 4) | Advanced mathematics | 14.6% | 12.5% |

| ARC-AGI-1 (Verified) | Abstract…