Inside image generation’s Renaissance moment — the OpenAI Podcast Ep. 19

People are generating over 1.5 billion images a week in ChatGPT. In this episode, Product lead Adele Li and researcher Kenji Hata share some of the new use cases and trends since the launch of Images 2.0. Together with host Andrew Mayne, they trace the progress from the early DALL-E days and dive into the latest capabilities, including better text rendering, photorealism, multilingual support, world knowledge, aspect ratios, and character consistency. They also explore what comes next as image generation models evolve into more capable creative assistants. Chapters 00:36 How Adele and Kenji came to work on Images 02:27 Images 2.0 launch reception 05:25 Productivity use cases and and 360 images 09:34: Viral trends, authenticity, and imperfection 10:51 Training breakthroughs and photorealism 14:06 Evals, prompting, and creative control 22:16 Creative agents and what comes next 22:27 Images + Codex 28:08 Prompt tips