OpenAI launches native image generation in GPT-4o
Native image generation in GPT-4o
Why it matters
The official description runs tokens → transformer → diffusion → pixels — not purely autoregressive (AR), but a hybrid of AR token generation and a diffusion decoder
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Officialopenai.comhttps://openai.com/index/introducing-4o-image-generation/Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week