OpenAI’s ChatGPT Updated to Make Images Better and Faster

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 chatbot.

OpenAI has increasingly tried to position ChatGPT as a kind of everything app that offers a search engine, voice assistant and image and video generator. But the company faces growing pressure from companies like Google, which recently introduced a powerful new AI model called Gemini 3 and also offers a popular image generator called Nano Banana. Grok, a chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI, also offers a similar feature.