OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now create charts for work and edit photos better

The new capabilities are available to both free and paid users via OpenAI’s GPT-4o model

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OpenAI has brought image generation to GPT-4o. Photo: AFP via Getty Images/TNS

Published: 9:47am, 26 Mar 2025Updated: 9:49am, 26 Mar 2025

OpenAI is making it easier to edit images in ChatGPT and create visuals for work that include lengthy, legible text, potentially broadening the chatbot’s appeal for businesses and everyday users.

During a live-streamed event on Tuesday, the San Francisco-based company showed how ChatGPT users would be able to refine images by having a series of conversations with the chatbot. A user might, for example, request an image of a snail in a city, then ask to change part of the backdrop and add a hat.

ChatGPT will also be able to better create images with coherent text, according to the company, making it more adept at spitting out diagrams, infographics and logos for professional uses.

A person might prompt the chatbot to generate a photorealistic image of a custom menu, for instance, or a map. It would also be able to carry out more complicated instructions from users regarding the composition of an image, the company said.

OpenAI has increasingly tried to position ChatGPT as a kind of everything app that offers a search engine, voice assistant and video generator. With the latest improvements, OpenAI is trying to incorporate more advanced image features that could be applicable in a mix of personal and professional uses. It also may help ChatGPT keep ahead of chatbots from rivals like Elon Musk’s xAI, which have also added image generators.