Episode 19 - Inside image generation’s Renaissance moment
Podcast: OpenAI PodcastPublished On: Thu May 14 2026
Description: People are generating over 1.5 billion images a week in ChatGPT. In this episode, Product lead Adele Li and researcher Kenji Hata share some of the new use cases and trends since the launch of Images 2.0. Together with host Andrew Mayne, they trace the progress from the early DALL-E days and dive into the latest capabilities, including better text rendering, photorealism, multilingual support, world knowledge, aspect ratios, and character consistency. They also explore what comes next as image generation models evolve into more capable creative assistants.Chapters00:36 How Adele and Kenji came to work on Images02:27 Images 2.0 launch reception05:25 Productivity use cases and and 360 images09:34: Viral trends, authenticity, and imperfection10:51 Training breakthroughs and photorealism14:06 Evals, prompting, and creative control22:16 Creative agents and what comes next22:27 Images + Codex28:08 Prompt tips Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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