ChatGPT can now turn text prompts and photos into animated GIFs with OpenAI's Images 2.6 model
ChatGPT can now turn text prompts and photos into animated GIFs with OpenAI's Images 2.6 model
ChatGPT now supports generating dynamic GIFs, this feature is based on OpenAI's new Images 2.6 model, and is being pushed to all ChatGPT and Codex users on web, desktop, and mobile platforms.
ChatGPT has added GIF generation capabilities, allowing readers to understand the progress of image models in cross-frame consistency and API variant divisions.
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ChatGPT supports generating dynamic GIFs based on the OpenAI Images 2.6 model.
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- ITHome · AI··+5 h 41 min
OpenAI has launched the Images 2.6 model, and ChatGPT now supports direct generation and editing of GIF animations.
- 36Kr · AI··+5 h 44 min
OpenAI launched Images 2.6, with a 50% increase in image generation speed, and added GIF generation functionality
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OpenAI has launched Images 2.6, with a 50% improvement in image generation speed.
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ChatGPT can now create animated GIFs. The update is based on OpenAI's new Images 2.6 model and is rolling out to all ChatGPT and Codex users on web, desktop, and mobile apps, The Verge reports. Users can generate a GIF from a text prompt or uploaded photo, then adjust animation speed or edit individual frames.
As an example, OpenAI showed how the prompt "Can you make a gif of a cat dancing?" produces several slight variations of a character that are strung together flipbook-style into a GIF. The model's image consistency appears strong enough to keep the character recognizable across frames, while earlier models would likely have altered its look too much from one frame to the next for the trick to work.

Beyond GIFs, Images 2.6 is also meant to speed up image generation overall. For developers, OpenAI is also releasing the API models GPT-Image-2.6 "Flare" for efficient and "Sunburst" for higher-quality image generation. Both model variants were first introduced with Image 2.5. OpeneAI says users now generate well over four billion images per week via ChatGPT and the API, one billion more than in September.
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