‘Insane’: OpenAI introduces GPT-4o native image generation and it’s already wowing users

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More We’re coming up on the one year anniversary since OpenAI released its first “omni” or multimodal model, GPT-4o back in May 2024, but that old standby still has some tricks up its sleeve. Case-in-point, today OpenAI finally turned on the native multimodal image generation capabilities of GPT-4o for users of its hit chatbot ChatGPT on the Plus, Pro, Team, and Free usage tiers, though the company said it would also soon be made available for Enterprise, Edu, and through its application programming interface (API). Unlike the previous generative AI image model available in ChatGPT — OpenAI’s DALL-E 3, a classic diffusion transformer model that was trained to reconstruct images from text prompts by removing noise from pixels — this new image generator is part of the same model that spits out text and code, as OpenAI trained the entire model to understand all thes ... Read full article.