ChatGPT’s new AI image feature is delayed for free users

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced on Wednesday that the rollout of ChatGPT’s viral new AI picture options to free customers could be delayed, citing considerably larger demand than the corporate anticipated.

“Photos in ChatGPT are wayyyy extra widespread than we anticipated (and we had fairly excessive expectations),” Altman stated in a post on X on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the corporate introduced the launch of GPT-4o’s native image generation, which lets customers add and modify pictures, saying it could quickly come to all tiers of ChatGPT. As of Wednesday, OpenAI has solely rolled out the function to subscribers to ChatGPT Pro, Plus, and Teams.

In current months, OpenAI has confronted an identical hiccups round product launches, repeatedly blaming a lack of compute capacity. Shortly after launching Sora in December, OpenAI disabled signups. Maybe, the corporate’s deliberate $500 billion Stargate data center project will assist with these capability constraints.