OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0, its latest image generation model, which Sam Altman claims represents a leap equivalent to GPT-3 to GPT-5. Tech blogger Simon Willison evaluated the model against gpt-image-1 and competitors like Google's Nano Banana 2/Pro and Claude Opus 4.7 using "Where's Waldo" style prompts to benchmark visual understanding and object detection.
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Where's the raccoon with the ham radio? (ChatGPT Images 2.0)
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0, claimed as a generational leap to GPT-5 parity, independently benchmarked against Google Nano Banana 2 and Claude Opus 4.7 on visual reasoning tasks.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Simon WillisonBY sys://pipeline
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