While ChatGPT was lower on our list of the best AI image generators, it just got a big boost in performance. As part of the ChatGPT 4o rollout (the newest and most advanced version of ChatGPT), the model’s image-generating capabilities have seen a huge boost.

The scores of Studio Ghibli-inspired images flooding the timelines of all social media users have been made possible by ChatGPT-4o (short for “Omni”), which OpenAI says is its latest and most advanced AI model.

It's not just the quality but how ChatGPT can maintain the thread and cohesion of images from prompt to prompt. Usually, if you start with image generation in something like OpenAI 's Dall-E or, say, X's Grok, it'll do a good job with the first image.