ChatGPT Images is now faster and better than ever

Following the recent release of GPT-5.2, today OpenAI is unveiling the new and revamped ChatGPT Images, which is four times faster at generating images. This has obviously been developed to compete head-on with Google's Nano Banana Pro, in the same way in which GPT-5.2 is a direct response to Gemini 3 Pro. ChatGPT Images "adheres to your intent more reliably", OpenAI's press release says, when you ask it for edits, "down to the small details". It changes only what you ask while keeping everything else intact across inputs, outputs, and subsequent edits. This should unlock "results...