GPT Image 1
OpenAI's natively multimodal image model — successor to DALL·E 3 in ChatGPT and the API
Verdict
The model behind the 2025 ChatGPT image-generation relaunch. Native multimodal generation (same model reasons about text and pixels together) gives it dramatically better instruction-following, in-context editing, and text rendering than DALL·E 3. Default choice for API-accessible image gen now.
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