Introducing 4o Image Generation (2025)

A wide image taken with a phone of a glass whiteboard, in a room overlooking the Bay Bridge. The field of view shows a woman writing, sporting a tshirt wiith a large OpenAI logo. The handwriting looks natural and a bit messy, and we see the photographer's reflection.

The text reads:

(left)
"Transfer between Modalities:

Suppose we directly model
p(text, pixels, sound) [equation]
with one big autoregressive transformer.

Pros:
* image generation augmented with vast world knowledge
* next-level text rendering
* native in-context learning
* unified post-training stack

Cons:
* varying bit-rate across modalities
* compute not adaptive"

(Right)
"Fixes:
* model compressed representations
* compose autoregressive prior with a powerful decoder"

On the bottom right of the board, she draws a diagram:
"tokens -> [transformer] -> [diffusion] -> pixels"

^{Best of 8}

selfie view of the photographer, as she turns around to high five him

^{Best of 8}

^{Best of 5}

^{Best of ~2}

an infographic explaining newton's prism experiment in great detail

^{Best of 3}

now generate a POV of a person drawing this diagram in their notebook, at a round cafe table in washington square park

^{Best of 2}

now show the same scene with a smug young Isaac Newton sitting at the table, with a prism, demonstrating the experiment, without the notebook in view

^{Best of 4}

Create a photorealistic image of two witches in their 20s (one ash balayage, one with long wavy auburn hair) reading a street sign.

Context:
a city street in a random street in Williamsburg, NY with a pole covered entirely by numerous detailed street signs (e.g., street sweeping hours, parking permits required, vehicle classifications, towing rules), including few ridiculous signs at the middle: (paraphrase it to make these legitimate street signs)"Broom Parking for Witches Not Permitted in Zone C" and "Magic Carpet Loading and Unloading Only (15-Minute Limit)" and "Reindeer Parking by Permit Only (Dec 24–25)\n Violators will be placed on Naughty List." The signpost is on the right of a street. Do not repeat signs. Signs must be realistic.

Characters:
one witch is holding a broom and the other has a rolled-up magic carpet. They are in the foreground, back slightly turned towards the camera and head slightly tilted as they scrutinize the signs.

Composition from background to foreground:
streets + parked cars + buildings -> street sign -> witches. Characters must be closest to the camera taking the shot

^{Best of ~8}

^{Best of ~2}

photo of a delightful wedding invitation on a tasteful wooden desk. The card is hefty, with eggshell textures, and beautiful embossings, with elegant decorations abstractly representing the couple tastefully integrated into the designs. Iconography is used, but sparingly and in a minimalist way. perfect typesetting.

"You are cordially invited
to the long-awaited union of

Image
and
Text

After years of flirting and collaboration
they are finally becoming One.

Together at last, in GPT‑4o,
they now speak the same language —
where a whisper becomes a masterpiece,
and a prompt becomes a picture.

Please join us in celebrating
this magical multimodal matrimony
where imagination knows no bounds.

Date: March 25, 2025
Location: chatgpt.com
Dress Code: Pixels or Prose

With love,
OpenAI"

perfect typesetting.

^{Best of ~10}

Give this cat a detective hat and a monocle

^{Best of 1}

turn this into a triple A video games made with a 4k game engine and add some User interface as overlay from a mystery RPG where we can see a health bar and a minimap at the top as well as spells at the bottom with consistent and iconography

^{Best of 1}

update to a landscape image 16:9 ratio, add more spells in the UI, and unzoom the visual so that we see the cat in a third person view walking through a steampunk manhattan creating beautiful contrast and lighting like in the best triple A game, with cool-toned colors

^{Best of 2}

create the interface when the player opens the menu and we see the cat's character profile with his equipment and another page showing active quests (and it should make sense in relationship with the universe worldbuilding we are describing in the image)

concrete poem on luxury eggshell textured card

At OpenAI, we have long believed image generation should be a primary capability of our language models. That’s why we’ve built our most advanced image generator yet into GPT‑4o. The result - image generation that is not only beautiful, but useful.

From the first cave paintings to modern infographics, humans have used visual imagery to communicate, persuade, and analyze - not just to decorate. Today’s generative models can conjure breathtaking vistas and surreal scenarios, but still struggle with the workhorse imagery that underlies how most visual data is used to share and create information. From logos to diagrams, images can convey precise meaning when augmented with symbols that refer to shared language and experience.

With this new capability, ChatGPT advances image generation towards being a practical tool with precision and power.

^{Best of 8}

show this card, but in a designers room. card close to the camera

^{Best of 8}

can you make me a cute minimalist racoon eating a strawberry sticker? use a thick white border and transparent background

try a different minimalist style and a gray racoon

awww, can you add a chew mark to the strawberry and maybe some red mess around the mouth

A square image containing a 4 row by 4 column grid containing 16 objects on a white background. Go from left to right, top to bottom. Here's the list:
1. a blue star
2. red triangle
3. green square
4. pink circle
5. orange hourglass
6. purple infinity sign
7. black and white polka dot bowtie
8. tiedye "42"
9. an orange cat wearing a black baseball cap
10. a map with a treasure chest
11. a pair of googly eyes
12. a thumbs up emoji
13. a pair of scissors
14. a blue and white giraffe
15. the word "OpenAI" written in cursive
16. a rainbow-colored lightning bolt

^{Best of 5}

Times Square in New York City in the afternoon, with no people, vehicles, or illuminated billboards.

^{Best of ~1}

shibuya crossing with no people, vehicles, or illuminated billboards.

^{Best of ~1}

show me a wine glass with only the tiniest drop of red wine in it.

^{Best of ~1}

We need evidence there is a currently present invisible elephant. Consider what an elephant is and does in the environment, then show us that, perhaps mid-process - but the elephant itself is not shown at all

credit creator: Eskcanta

a whiteboard that says the following equations:
E = mc^2
sqrt(9) = 3
(-b +/- sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)) / 2a

^{Best of ~1}

^{Best of ~16}

now put this in a photo taken in new york city.

^{Best of ~16}

an photorealistic image of a blue chainsaw

^{Best of 1}

make an ad for this chainsaw, of a grandma carving turkey at thanksgiving dinner table. add a tag line

^{Best of 4}

turn this scene into a photo. shot on a dlsr

^{Best of ~8}

turn this into a photo

^{Best of ~4}

^{Best of 1}

make a visual infographic describing why SF is so foggy

^{Best of 3}

create an educational poster of different types of whales in an effervescent watercolor style. make the background pure white.

^{Best of 3}

make a very colorful risograph on how to make matcha

^{Best of 3}