OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Images 2.0, Introducing Image Reasoning Capability for the First Time

According to OpenAI’s official announcement, ChatGPT Images 2.0 has officially launched and is now available to all ChatGPT and Codex users starting today. This new version is the first image model with reasoning capabilities: it can perform real-time web searches when a reasoning model is selected, generate multiple distinct images from a single prompt, self-verify its outputs, and support generating functional QR codes. Additionally, the update delivers significant improvements in multilingual text rendering, visual style fidelity—including photorealism, cinematic aesthetics, pixel art, and comics—and flexible aspect ratios (ranging from 3:1 to 1:3). Its knowledge cutoff date has been updated to December 2025. The image reasoning feature is currently available only to Plus, Pro, and Business users; Enterprise access is forthcoming. The underlying model, gpt-image-2, is now also available to developers.