Inside image generation's Renaissance moment

The OpenAI Podcast · 14 May 2026 · Episode 19

About this episode

People generate more than 1.5 billion images a week in ChatGPT. Product lead Adele Li and researcher Kenji Hata trace the path from the early DALL·E days to Images 2.0, covering text rendering, photorealism, multilingual support, character consistency, and where image models go as creative assistants.

About the show

The OpenAI Podcast — OpenAI. Long-form conversations with the people building at OpenAI — research, ChatGPT, Codex, infrastructure and where the industry is heading.