ChatGPT Rolls Out GIF Maker With Images 2.6

ChatGPT is rolling out a feature that can turn text prompts or uploaded photos into animated GIFs, alongside OpenAI’s Images 2.6 model. Users can adjust playback speed, inspect and edit individual frames, and share the finished animation, according to reports describing the feature. The GIF maker is arriving as part of a wider update to OpenAI’s image tools. OpenAI says Images 2.6 is intended to speed up image generation. Developers are also being offered two API models: Flare, designed for faster generation, and Sunburst, intended to produce higher-quality images. The rollout’s availability has been described differently. Some reports say the feature is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex users across web, desktop and mobile, while another describes a gradual rollout and says it was unavailable on accounts used for testing. OpenAI has not provided a date for when every ChatGPT account will have access. A demonstration described in reports used a prompt asking ChatGPT to make a dancing-cat GIF. The tool generated an animation and provided controls for changing its speed and stepping through its frames. One account testing the feature said it could not access GIF generation and...