OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Images 2.0 — First Image Model That 'Thinks' Before It Draws
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0 and its underlying gpt-image-2 model on April 21, 2026, introducing a first-of-its-kind reasoning phase where the model plans its composition before generating images at up to 2K resolution. DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 will be retired on May 12.


