The day developers have been waiting for is finally here. OpenAI just released API access to the same image generation capability that took over the internet when it first launched inside ChatGPT.
Remember the week-long virality of Studio Ghibli-style images on ChatGPT? The internet went crazy on that. 130 million users around the world created more than 700 million images in just a week.
Developers and AI startups raced to implement similar functionality, but it was really hard to find an alternative. OpenAI did something magical with its GPT-4o image model that just blows away most other models out there.
Now, there’s no need for workarounds or temporary solutions, because OpenAI has released a brand new image model named gpt-image-1.
In this guide, I’ll show you the details of the gpt-image-1 model, how to access the API, its cost, and some of the first platforms using it besides ChatGPT.
Let’s get started.