OpenAI, the company who makes ChatGPT just raised the bar in image generation. And within 24 hours my favorite image generator for the last year, Ideogram 2.0, released version 3.0. Both of these are game changers.
OpenAI played it smart this time, unlike when they announced their quantum leap in video generation, Sora, in February of 2024 and then didn’t release it until December, by which time many other companies had gone beyond it. So its release was kind of like a damp squib.
This time they said nothing and just released it and became the best image generator there is. They have finally retired my least favorite generator DALL-E3, thank goodness. They’re just calling it 4o Image Generation and you can access it by typing “Create Image” (or clicking on the 3 View Tools dots) right within ChatGPT, even the free version (which has limits as to how many images you can create).
What’s special about it? You can refine and edit your image via natural conversations, keeping what you like exactly as it is and only changing what you want changed, it delivers exactly what you ask it to, its handling of text, even long text is phenomenal, it’s photorealistic or whatever you want it to be, you can show it an image as a guide, and more. It can create beautiful promo pieces fully. It can accept a single image of you, or anybody, and you can place you or them in any environment. It will maintain character consistency from image to image, and more.
It uses a similar technology to the Google AI Studio one that I wrote about on Monday, but in my tests, It is better.
You can find out more at https://openai.com/index/introducing-4o-image-generation/
And yesterday Ideogram 3.0 came out, which is also a wonderfully enhanced version, with a lot of similar features. To prevent this post from becoming a book, you can see and read more about it at https://about.ideogram.ai/3.0
And now there’s also Reve, which is also excellent! https://preview.reve.art/app/explore
