OpenAI Rolled Out ChatGPT Images 2.0, competing with Google's Nano Banana
April 24, 2026
IBL News | New York
OpenAI rolled out this week ChatGPT Images 2.0, a new tool that allows users to search the web and create visual explainers based on uploaded files, reasoning through the structure of the image before generating it.
According to the company, this image generator creates more sophisticated images, with improvements in its ability to follow instructions and preserve the details the user chooses.
It creates up to 8 images at once with thinking enabled, all while maintaining the same characters, objects, and styles across scenes.
OpenAI said this should make it easier to generate things like manga pages, a series of social graphics, or design plans for every room in a house.
It generates images with a resolution of up to 2K and in a range of aspect ratios, from wider formats such as 3:1 to taller ones like 1:3.
OpenAI first released ChatGPT Images last year and launched its latest major update in December, adding faster image generation and improved photo-editing capabilities.
Since then, competition has only been getting stronger, with the arrival of tools like Google’s Nano Banana Pro and Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2.
ChatGPT Images 2.0 is available to all ChatGPT and Codex users starting today.
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