OpenAI Retires the DALL-E GPT From ChatGPT, Pushes Users to ChatGPT Images 2.0

My take: OpenAI retired the DALL-E GPT from ChatGPT today, the access point many users had been using to generate images within the platform. This is not the end of image generation in ChatGPT, but it is a change that requires updating your workflow.

OpenAI's consolidation pattern is consistent: in May they already retired the DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 models from the developer API. Now the user interface access closes too. The replacement is ChatGPT Images 2.0, available on all plans, including the free tier.

For anyone who uses ChatGPT to create visual content, what is worth understanding is that the workflow changes, but the capability does not disappear. OpenAI is simplifying the platform by concentrating features rather than maintaining separate tools, and that direction is not going to change.

Have you already moved your workflow to ChatGPT Images, or were you still relying on the DALL-E GPT as your main access point?