GPT Image 2.5 (ChatGPT Images 2.5)

Five months after Images 2, OpenAI's image model gets more natural lighting and richer textures, holds on to the subjects in reference photos, and follows edits more reliably across several turns, at up to 50% lower latency. Developers get two versions: Flare, the fast default, and Sunburst, built for tighter control across edits in production work.

For AI filmmakers it is a first-frame tool. With Sora's app already shut down, OpenAI's way into AI film was the image that starts a shot, handed off to other companies' video models. Within days creators were pairing it with Seedance 2.5, as in TechHalla's No lo intenten hacer en casa, which passed 63 million views on X with the prompts posted alongside.