🕵️ OpenAI Releases Its Image Generation API
⏩ How to Generate GIFs Directly Inside ChatGPT...
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In this brisk 5-minute read we’ll tour this week’s biggest AI headlines, demo-ready tools, a fresh batch of tutorials and a deeper look at OpenAI’s brand-new Image Generation API.
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✅ OpenAI releases its Image Generation API
✅ Grok Vision gives xAI’s chatbot real-world sight
✅ Perplexity Voice lands on iOS
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🔥 What’s Hot in the Market?
🌎 xAI’s Grok can now “see” your world – New Grok Vision mode lets iOS users point a camera at an object and get instant answers; multilingual audio and realtime search arrive too.
📱 Perplexity’s voice assistant debuts on iPhone – The AI helper can set reminders, send texts, and book tables, working even on older devices while Apple Intelligence is still in the wings.
💰 Grok 3 Mini turns up the price-war heat – xAI’s new lightweight model outperforms bigger rivals on math and coding benchmarks while costing up to 5× less per token.
🤖 Microsoft 365 unleashes ‘Researcher’ & ‘Analyst’ agents – Deep-reasoning agents fetch data across Outlook, Teams, and more, signalling a shift from chatbots to full digital colleagues.
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🔥 Ocoya: One-click AI social-media content creation and scheduling across all major platforms.
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📝 AI Tutorials
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How to Generate GIFs Directly Inside ChatGPT (view)
🔍 Deep Dive
OpenAI releases new GPT-Image-1 image generation model via API
OpenAI’s wildly popular image creator is now API-accessible as gpt-image-1, bringing multimodal power to your own apps.
💡 Key Highlights:
Full-fidelity styles & text rendering – The model follows brand guidelines and can embed accurate typography.
Enterprise pilots already live – Adobe, Figma, Gamma, Airtable, and Wix integrate the endpoint for creative workflows at scale.
Pay-as-you-go pricing – Roughly $0.02 – $0.19 per generated image depending on quality, with separate text/image token rates.
Built-in safety & C2PA metadata – Same guardrails as ChatGPT’s image tool plus adjustable moderation tiers.
Why it matters: Direct API access unlocks on-brand, high-volume imagery for e-commerce, marketing and design tools—no round-tripping through ChatGPT required. Expect a fresh wave of AI-first creativity platforms.
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