The new ChatGPT Images is here

Source: OpenAI Date: 2025-12-16 URL: https://openai.com/index/new-chatgpt-images-is-here

Summary

OpenAI’s December 2025 launch of a redesigned ChatGPT Images experience — a major update to the image generation interface within ChatGPT, likely featuring DALL-E 4 or an equivalent generation capability and a more integrated creation and editing workflow. The “new ChatGPT Images” framing suggested a significant UX and capability upgrade from the previous generation, with improved editing, inpainting, style control, or multimodal conversation-based image creation.

Implications

Image generation as a core ChatGPT feature. Integrating image generation deeply into the ChatGPT conversational interface — rather than as a separate product — followed the pattern of voice, search, and code execution becoming first-class ChatGPT capabilities. The “new” framing positioned image creation as freshly competitive at the end of 2025.

Thread: Multimodal ChatGPT and creative tools. Sits alongside Sora (video), the April 2026 “creating images with ChatGPT” post, and the Disney Sora agreement as OpenAI’s creative media product portfolio. Image generation was the more mature of the creative media capabilities, with a longer product history from DALL-E through GPT-4o’s native image understanding.

Watch: What generation model powered the new ChatGPT Images, what the editing and iteration experience was like compared to Midjourney and Adobe Firefly, and whether the December 2025 update moved ChatGPT Images into serious consideration for professional creative workflows.