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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.6 with animated GIF creation

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OpenAI's Images 2.6 lets ChatGPT users create animated GIFs from text prompts or uploaded photos and edit frames. Two new API models, GPT-Image-2.6 Flare and Sunburst, offer 50% faster image generation.

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Timeline · 6 reports

  1. 2026-11-05 02:32 · OpenAI YouTube
    Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.6
  2. 2026-11-04 23:49 · OpenAI Developer Announcements
    Images, upgraded—introducing ChatGPT Images 2.6
  3. 2026-11-04 23:43 · OpenAI (X)
    Images, upgraded—introducing ChatGPT Images 2.6
  4. 2026-11-04 23:43 · r/ChatGPT
    Introducing Images 2.6
  5. 2026-11-04 19:24 · The Next Web
    ChatGPT can now make animated GIFs with OpenAI’s Images 2.6
  6. 2026-11-04 18:00 · The Verge AI
    ChatGPT will now make you animated GIFs

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