After an explosive launch, a viral trend, and some melted GPUs, the new image generation feature for ChatGPT is now available to free users. The feature originally launched on March 25 but because paid subscribers utterly flooded OpenAI with requests for Ghiblified images, CEO Sam Altman announced the next day that the rollout to free users would be delayed “a while.”
Luckily, it appears this delay is over just five days later — Altman has already published another X post saying that “image gen [is] now rolled out to all free users!”
chatgpt image gen now rolled out to all free users!
I tried it out myself and although you do need to be logged in, the chatbot itself confirmed that it can now generate images. I always remember one random prompt that older versions of Dall-E would get confused about so I tried it out with this new version. Unfortunately, it still appears that everyone naturally plays their handheld gaming devices back to front in the AI universe.
However, the good news is ChatGPT was able to fix the image successfully after I pointed out the problem. While the otter appears to be having slightly less fun this time, it is still the same otter, so I’m calling it a win. Of course, there is the slight problem that this isn’t a Switch 2 — it’s an original Switch with “Switch 2” written on it — but we can forgive that. Plus, it gave the model a chance to show off its nice new text generation abilities.
The generation takes quite a while, it took a few minutes each for these two images, but it’s hard to say if that’s the norm or if it’s being slowed down by high activity. All of the hype around the new image generation feature has led to another load of new users for ChatGPT — Altman even said they got one million new users in one hour yesterday.
the chatgpt launch 26 months ago was one of the craziest viral moments i’d ever seen, and we added one million users in five days.
we added one million users in the last hour.
Altman also mentioned a few days ago that the free tier will be limited to three images per day and I can confirm that I got cut off after three generations. These limits might be loosened in a few weeks once all the excitement has died down or OpenAI finds a way to make the process a little more efficient.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Google DeepMind's AI world model Genie 4 can now build interactive worlds that you can explore and reshape as they run. It also generates ambient sounds, music, and dialogue that respond to your actions.
The new world model builds on Genie 3 with improved realism, more natural human movement, and better simulations of real-world physics. It could eventually help with everything from game development to training robots.
Apple has an incredible talent for making me admire its products while simultaneously questioning what on earth it's thinking with the pricing. This isn't even something as bizarre as a monitor stand, but the audacity for starting a new laptop lineup from $2,000 doesn't surprise me.
The newly announced 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 is just the latest to showcase this. The funny thing is, I already know that it's going to be a reliable workstation. You get a powerful new 2nm M6 processor, a gorgeous Liquid Retina XDR display, and up to 24 hours of battery life. We were impressed by the M5 MacBook Air, so the high-end M6 powered MacBook Pro definitely won't let us down.