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OpenAI launches Images 2.6 with animated GIF creation and faster image generation

OpenAI introduced Images 2.6 in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API, adding animated GIF creation from text prompts or photos with frame editing, plus new API models Flare and Sunburst that generate images 50% faster.

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Timeline · 11 reports

  1. 2026-11-05 02:32 · OpenAI YouTube
    Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.6
  2. 2026-11-05 00:44 · TestingCatalog AI News
    OpenAI launches Images 2.6 with GIFs and image reference
  3. 2026-11-05 00:40 · Techmeme
    OpenAI launches Images 2.6 in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API, saying it generates images 50% faster, and adds animated GIF creation from prompts or photos
  4. 2026-11-04 23:49 · OpenAI Developer Announcements
    Images, upgraded—introducing ChatGPT Images 2.6
  5. 2026-11-04 23:44 · OpenAI (X)
    Today, we’re bringing GPT-Image-2.6 to Codex and the API
  6. 2026-11-04 23:43 · OpenAI (X)
    Images, upgraded—introducing ChatGPT Images 2.6
  7. 2026-11-04 23:43 · r/ChatGPT
    Introducing Images 2.6
  8. 2026-11-04 19:24 · The Next Web
    ChatGPT can now make animated GIFs with OpenAI’s Images 2.6
  9. 2026-11-04 18:23 · Unite.AI
    ChatGPT Adds Animated GIF Creation and Editing with Images 2.6
  10. 2026-11-04 18:00 · The Verge AI
    ChatGPT will now make you animated GIFs
  11. 2026-11-04 00:00 · OpenAI News
    Introducing Images 2.6

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