OpenAI’s ChatGPT Updated to Make Images Better and Faster

December 16, 2025, 6:00 PM UTC

OpenAI is rolling out an update to ChatGPT that’s intended to generate images better and faster, the latest move by the artificial intelligence developer to bolster its flagship chatbot amid heated competition from Alphabet Inc.’s Google.

The new version of ChatGPT Images, announced on Thursday, is designed to make and edit images more precisely, as well as to spit out pictures as much as four times faster than its previous AI image-generation model. The company is also creating a new section within ChatGPT’s mobile app and website meant for people to make images, rather than just doing so in an interaction with the ...

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