OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Images 2.0; Available to all ChatGPT and Codex users; Coming to Canva AI 2.0

Yesterday, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Images 2.0, a state-of-the-art model that can take on complex visual tasks and produce precise, immediately usable visuals.

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.0

A state-of-the-art image model that can take on complex visual tasks and produce precise, immediately usable visuals, with sharper editing, richer layouts, and thinking-level intelligence.

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ChatGPT Images 2.0

ChatGPT Images 2.0 provides results that feel less AI-generated and more intentionally designed. It’s accurate across languages and uses its expanded visual and world knowledge to fill in the gaps for you.

This is OpenAI’s first image model with thinking capabilities. When a thinking or pro model is selected in ChatGPT, Images 2.0 can search the web for real-time information, create multiple distinct images from one prompt, and double-check its own outputs.

It can not only conceptualise more sophisticated images, but it actually brings that vision to life effectively, able to follow instructions, preserve requested details, and render the fine-grained elements that often break image models: small text, iconography, UI elements, dense compositions, and subtle stylistic constraints, and at up to 2K resolution in the API.

This model comes with stronger multilingual understanding and significant gains in non-Latin text rendering, particularly in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi, and Bengali. It can produce images with non-English text that are not only rendered correctly but also with language that flows coherently.

Images 2.0 also shows significantly improved fidelity across a wide range of visual styles. It is better able to capture the defining characteristics of photos—including the tiny flaws that add realism—as well as cinematic stills, pixel art, manga, and other distinctive visual languages, with greater consistency in texture, lighting, composition, and fine detail. As a result, the model can produce outputs that more faithfully reflect the style requested, rather than approximating it.

With support for aspect ratios as wide as 3:1 and as tall as 1:3, Images 2.0 can generate outputs that are ready to fit the formats you need, from wide banners and presentation slides to posters, mobile screens, bookmarks, and social graphics. Ask for the aspect ratio you want in the prompt, or select from preset options to regenerate any image.

Images 2.0 brings a more up-to-date understanding of the world into image creation, with a knowledge cutoff of December 2025, for more relevant and contextually accurate outputs. With thinking, it can also produce multiple distinct images at once. You can ask for a coherent set of up to eight outputs in one go with character and object continuity, that sequentially build on one another.

Images in Codex brings visual creation into one workspace for creating, iterating, and shipping apps, slide decks, and other work, making Codex more useful for broader tasks across design, marketing, product, sales, and learning & development.

Developers and businesses can bring these same capabilities into the products they’re developing for the API through gpt-image-2, adding high-quality image generation and editing to the workflows they already serve.

Limitations

This model comes with a few limitations as well. It can still struggle with tasks that require a complete and coherent physical world model, origami guides, puzzles like Rubik’s Cubes, and details that need to appear correctly on hidden, angled, or reversed surfaces. Very dense or repetitive visual details, like fine grains of sand, may also test the limits of the model. Labels and diagrams may still need review for accuracy, especially when they rely on precise arrows or part labels.

In the API, outputs over 2K are currently in beta and may produce inconsistent results in some cases.

Availability

ChatGPT Images 2.0 is available starting today to all ChatGPT and Codex users. Advanced outputs with thinking are available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Business users.

The gpt-image-2 model is available in the API; pricing⁠ varies depending on the selected quality and resolution of the image.

Canva has also officially announced that this new image generation model will be coming shortly to Canva AI 2.0.

✨ We're excited to share that gpt-image-2 will be coming shortly to Canva AI 2.0! From highly-detailed generations to its creative intelligence, we can't wait to see what you create. And with Magic Layers, you can edit everything like a design 🎨 pic.twitter.com/lg9mXiLAxZ

— Canva (@canva) April 21, 2026