Images and video · 2026-11-04

ChatGPT can now make you animated GIFs

ChatGPT can create GIFs from a text prompt or a photo, and lets you change the animation speed and individual frames.

✨ What's new

ChatGPT can now create animated GIFs. You can write a prompt or upload a photo in the chat. Before this, the chatbot could not make a GIF in a single step.

The update comes with the new Images 2.6 image model. After creating a GIF, you can change the playback speed, edit individual frames, and share the file with others.

📌 Example

OpenAI shared an example with the prompt "can you make a gif of a cat dancing?" ChatGPT creates the animation and lets you view it frame by frame and change its speed.

🔹 Faster generation and more images

Along with GIF support, the update makes image generation in ChatGPT faster, according to OpenAI. The company says users now generate over 4 billion images per week across ChatGPT and its API. In September, it reported 3 billion per week.

Images 2.6 is rolling out to all ChatGPT and Codex users on web, desktop, and mobile apps. OpenAI is also launching GPT-Image-2.6 Flare and GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst in its API for faster and higher-quality image generation.

Sources: 🔗 The Verge — AI