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Simon Willison's April 2026 newsletter covers Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 price increases, Claude Mythos, LLM security research, and ChatGPT Images 2.0.

Users in India are embracing ChatGPT Images 2.0 for creative, personal visuals — from avatars to cinematic portraits.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 unexpectedly added creative flourishes (sarcastic sign text) to a complex multi-entity image generation prompt without explicit instruction.

OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0; Willison benchmarks improvement via Where's Waldo-style prompt testing against predecessor.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0, improved image generation model showing enhanced reasoning and creative color application.

An image generated by ChatGPT Images 2.0. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is rolling out the latest version of its AI-powered image generator with new "thinking capabilities," allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt. In a blog post, OpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 can now create more "sophisticated" images, with improvements to its ability to follow instructions, preserve details of your choosing, and generate text. It's powered by OpenAI's new GPT Image 2 model, with new thinking capabilities available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise subscrib...

ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image-generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.

OpenAI ships ChatGPT Images 2.0 with improved text rendering, multilingual support, and visual reasoning capabilities.