Images 2.5: 50% lower latency and safe generation up to 79.4%

Kumail Sikandar @AiwithkumailOriginally posted 2026.09.10

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OpenAI just shipped Images 2.5. people already make more than 3 BILLION images a week across chatgpt images and the gpt image api. flare serves that at higher quality than gpt image 2 with 50 percent less latency. and by openai's own eval, safe generation went 75.2 to 79.4 percent. both variants are already wired into Arcads, so it lands in the ad workflow and not just an endpoint. faster, better, and blocks more. that combo basically never ships together.