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OpenAI's ChatGPT image generation feature has experienced explosive growth, with users generating over 700 million images since its launch. This surge in popularity underscores the increasing demand for AI-driven content creation and highlights the challenges of scaling AI infrastructure to meet user needs. The image generation feature, which includes capabilities like creating realistic Ghibli-style photos, has led to millions of new sign-ups for ChatGPT.
This rapid adoption has strained OpenAI's resources, resulting in product delays and temporary service degradation as the company works to expand its infrastructure. According to Brad Lightcap, who oversees day-to-day operations and global deployment at OpenAI, over 130 million users have generated more than 700 million images since the upgraded image generator launched in ChatGPT. India is now the fastest-growing ChatGPT market.
References :
- OODAloop: ChatGPT users have generated over 700M images since last week, OpenAI says
- John Werner: Picture This: Big Changes With ChatGPT’s Image Release
- Last Week in AI: Gemini 2.5 wows the AI community, OpenAI rolls out image generation powered by GPT-4o to ChatGPT, Cool Anthropic interpretability research
- www.artificialintelligence-news.com: Following the release of ChatGPT’s new image-generation tool, user activity has surged; millions of people have been drawn to a trend whereby uploaded images are inspired by the unique visual style of Studio Ghibli.
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