ChatGPT Image Generator: What It Is and How to Use It
ChatGPT’s image generator runs on gpt-image-2, the model OpenAI shipped on April 21, 2026 as part of ChatGPT Images 2.0. It replaced the GPT-4o image pipeline that had powered the tool for the previous year. The practical difference is that ChatGPT now draws pictures natively inside the chat window rather than handing your prompt off to a separate tool the way it did in the DALL·E era. That shift changed what the tool is good for. Text inside images is now readable rather than garbled, output goes up to 2K resolution, and on paid plans the model can reason about a layout before it draws anything. Below we cover what […]
