--- title: ChatGPT can now make animated GIFs with OpenAI’s Images 2.6 description: OpenAI is rolling out animated GIF creation and editing in ChatGPT with a new image model called Images 2.6. Users can turn a text prompt or uploaded photo... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-can-now-make-animated-gifs-with-openai-s-images-2-6-4lzra9yqs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ChatGPT can now make animated GIFs with OpenAI’s Images 2.6 | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI is rolling out animated GIF creation and editing in ChatGPT with a new image model called Images 2.6. Users can turn a text prompt or uploaded photo... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-can-now-make-animated-gifs-with-openai-s-images-2-6-4lzra9yqs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4LZrA9yqS.png og:image:alt: ChatGPT can now make animated GIFs with OpenAI’s Images 2.6 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ChatGPT can now make animated GIFs with OpenAI’s Images 2.6 **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI is rolling out animated GIF creation and editing in ChatGPT with a new image model called Images 2.6. Users can turn a text prompt or uploaded photo into a GIF, adjust its playback speed, and edit individual frames. Developers get two new API models: GPT-Image-2.6 Flare for speed and GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst for quality. OpenAI says people now make more than 4 billion images a week across ChatGPT and its API, up from 3 billion in September. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What are GPT-Image-2.6 Flare and Sunburst models from OpenAI? They are two new API models OpenAI released alongside Images 2.6: GPT-Image-2.6 Flare, optimized for speed, and GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst, optimized for quality. They follow the same speed-versus-quality split OpenAI introduced with Images 2.5 in September, when Adobe integrated one of those models into Firefly. _Developers picking an image API for speed versus quality can track model updates like these on daily.dev._ ### Can ChatGPT generate animated GIFs? Yes, ChatGPT can now create animated GIFs using OpenAI's Images 2.6 model, from either a text prompt or an uploaded photo. Once generated, users can adjust playback speed, view and edit individual frames, and share the GIF. Previously, ChatGPT could not produce a GIF in a single step. The rollout covers all ChatGPT and Codex users on web, desktop, and mobile. _Anyone evaluating ChatGPT's media generation features can follow rollouts like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [OpenAI’s new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easy](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-s-new-chatgpt-image-generator-makes-faking-photos-easy-kd3sfqwpr) · Ars Technica · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#genai](https://daily.dev/tags/genai), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-can-now-make-animated-gifs-with-openai-s-images-2-6-4lzra9yqs) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"ChatGPT can now make animated GIFs with OpenAI’s Images 2.6","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-can-now-make-animated-gifs-with-openai-s-images-2-6-4lzra9yqs","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-can-now-make-animated-gifs-with-openai-s-images-2-6-4lzra9yqs"},"datePublished":"2026-11-04T19:35:48.292Z","dateModified":"2026-11-05T00:31:00.550Z","description":"OpenAI is rolling out animated GIF creation and editing in ChatGPT with a new image model called Images 2.6. 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