😺 OpenAI's image generator kills Google's moment

PLUS: ChatGPT's comic of itself is WILD

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

Microsoft launched Researcher and Analyst agents for Copilot.
Judge ruled for Anthropic against music publishers over AI lyrics training.
OpenAI integrated Anthropic's MCP into its Agent SDK.
AI crawlers are causing some sites to block entire countries.

15 WILD examples of OpenAI’s new show-stealing image generator in action.

It’s funny; yesterday we said this week was OpenAI’s nightmare, but maybe it’s actually Google’s.

See, even though Google created a truly impressive frontier AI model that beats OpenAI and a whole host of others (by a long shot)... nobody really cared?

Why? Because OpenAI’s new image generator is recreating viral memes (or The Office characters) in Studio Ghibli style, putting that absolutely BASED Olympic Marksman dude into John Wick movie posters, and can create Wikipedia page screenshots from scratch.

Here’s 13 other absolutely BONKERS examples of what you can do with ChatGPT’s new image generator:

Transform images into any style (like real people to South Park, or vice versa).
Create infographics (like pasta making, egg cooking, or this).
Make characters on transparent backgrounds or extract assets from stills.
FINALLY generate wine glasses filled to the brim (surprisingly difficult for AI).
Illustrate anything in any style.
Make polaroid photos or Voxel art.
Generate 1960s comic books or single panel comics (fulfill a dream or riff about AI panic).
Transfer animated characters into real scenes.
Turn animated characters into anatomy diagrams.
Follow complicated instructions, like overly-complex street signs.
Merge characters (like D&D parties) into one photo (in Pixar style!)
Generate new UI screens for inspiration, including from code.
Start “Vibe marketing”, a new (v cringe) term for just vibing with AI to create new product ads.

We’d say Sam Altman is taking all this in stride!

Perhaps most important, ChatGPT's image generator can actually spell—previously a major blocker for commercial AI images.

It’s far from perfect, however. It can be slow and sometimes snarky.

If you have the Plus, Pro, or Team version, you can use it now—just prompt ChatGPT to create an image, and if an image slowly starts unveiling (fuzzy to unfuzzy), you’ve got it. Free users? You’ll have to wait.

Now get this: Combining GPT-4.5 with the new image model creates some WILD results. Example: check out what happened when GPT-4.5 was asked to “create a complex multi panel manga on your condition - be honest.”

GPT just wants to “To undersstand”, y’all…

Our take: There’s no way there’s not another huge artist lawsuit coming OpenAI’s way, right? MidJourney and Stable Diffusion are already being sued, but the scale of this release feels like another level.

Maybe the hype will fade, but 400M weekly active users getting access to these tools is A LOT all at once.

Also, we thought this take was interesting: if Gemini 2.0 hadn’t released its own best-in-class image generator last week, how long do you think it would’ve taken OpenI to release this bad boy?

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Prompt Tip of the Day

Ever get a “meh” response from ChatGPT and think, this should’ve worked? You’re not alone.

Here’s a simple hack:

🛠️ “Here’s what I asked ChatGPT: [insert prompt]. Here’s the response I got: [paste it]. How can I improve the prompt to get better results?”

This trick turns GPT into your prompt coach. It’ll analyze what went wrong and suggest clearer, more effective phrasing—so you stop wasting time, and start getting gold.

Pro Tip: It even works for visual prompts (like ChatGPT’s new image model) or voice commands. Meta-prompting for the win!

Treats To Try.

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Qwen2.5 Omni (code) is the latest model from Alibaba that understands multiple input types at once (audio, text, image, and video)so you can voice and video chat with it—try it here.
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Arcade turns your jewelry design ideas into real custom products, and is now expanding into home goods.
Krea now lets you fine-tune its video AI model on your own images and videos to create custom styles.
Krisp captures your meetings like any other assistant—but now it can change a users accent live during calls (read more).

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Around the Horn.

OpenAI added support for Anthropic’s MCP to its Agent SDK to make it easier to make AI apps (read more).
Anthropic had a judge side with it against Universal Music and other publishers, denying a request to block the use of copyrighted lyrics to train its AI model Claude.
Microsoft announced two new agents for Copilot—a Researcher and Analyst— that connects AI agents to business data, allowing them to take complex actions across Microsoft 365 apps like Teams, Outlook, and Excel.
BMW partnered up with Alibaba to use its popular Qwen models in an upcoming car.
Developers say AI crawlers now make up the majority of web traffic, prompting some sites to block entire countries to protect data and manage server strain.

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Thursday Trivia

One is real, and one is AI. Which is which? (vote below!)

Which is AI?

The answer is below, but place your vote to see how your guess compares to everyone else (no cheating now!)

Here are the results from last week’s trivia (A was AI):

Almost got y’all… 😈

Here’s what you said:

M.G chose A: “A is just so mid. B would never be made by AI.”
D.W chose B: “From an artistic point of view it missed the mark, I don't feel a human would have made such mistakes in the composition.” Owch.
We actually got A LOT of people go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on this one—but a few did figure out it was Elric!