GPT Image 1
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A to Z
- A · App
- Yes
- B · Built By
- OpenAI
- C · CEO & Politics
- Sam Altman — Independent; self-described 'politically homeless' (2025); former Democratic donor; $1M personal donation to Trump inaugural fund (2025)
- D · Date
- 2025
- E · Expertise
- Beginner (app available)
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Images
- H · Deployment
- Cloud
- I · Inputs
- Text→Image
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Sam Altman (CEO), Greg Brockman (President), Jakub Pachocki (Chief Scientist)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Image Generation
- N · Safety Issues
- Deepfake, NSFW, copyright risks.
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- API: $5/M text input, $10/M image input, $40/M image output (deprecated; shutdown Oct 23, 2026)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 6/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 7/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 7/10 · Significance 6/10 → 6.25
- R · What Makes It Special
- OpenAI's GPT Image 1, released in the API on April 23, 2025 as the natively multimodal model behind the image generation OpenAI had added to ChatGPT a month earlier, which over 130 million users used to create more than 700 million images in its first week; it follows custom guidelines, draws on world knowledge and renders text accurately, cost about $0.02-$0.19 per square image, and was adopted by Adobe, Figma and others. Now superseded, it leaves the API October 23, 2026.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private (~$852B valuation, Mar 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @OpenAI
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Image Generation from OpenAI, released 2025.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“GPT Image 1.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/openai-gpt-image-1.html
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