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ChatGPT gets upgraded image generation powered by GPT-4o to take Google’s Gemini
Bay Area Times
March 26, 2025
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- ChatGPT gets upgraded image generation powered by GPT-4o
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1. ChatGPT gets upgraded image generation powered by GPT-4o to take Google’s Gemini
Available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Team, and free users and in Sora.
Replacing DALL-E with better text rendering by using “4o’s inherent knowledge base and chat context.”
Autoregressive approach.
Limitations include slow generation, hallucinations, and multilingual text rendering errors.
Trained on “publicly available data” and proprietary data from partnerships.
Has “the capability to generate” adult public figure images, though public figures “can opt out.”
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3. Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental unveiled as new AI reasoning model
Gemini 2.5 Pro is on par with top reasoning models like OpenAI’s o3-mini, DeepSeek R1, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet across benchmarks:
1M token context window (2M “coming soon”).
Available in the Gemini app for $20/month Gemini Advanced users and via Google AI Studio.
Coming to Vertex AI “soon”.
Pricing details will be announced in the “coming weeks”.
4. DeepSeek V3 update emerges as highest-scoring non-reasoning model
The DeepSeek V3 update scored 53 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, identical to xAI’s Grok 3 but surpassing GPT-4.5, Claude 3.7 Sonnet:
