OpenAI’s latest image-generating AI is so popular that the company’s servers can hardly keep up.
On Thursday, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman posted on X, “It’s super fun seeing people love images in ChatGPT. But our GPUs are melting. We are going to temporarily introduce some rate limits while wo work on making it more efficient.”
Altman added that they plan to allow free users to generate three images daily with ChatGPT, expressing hope that this temporary restriction won’t last long.
He also addressed ongoing fixes: “We are refusing some generations that should be allowed. We are fixing these as fast as we can.”
Altman has already updated his profile picture to one generated by ChatGPT.
The new ChatGPT image generation is set to replace the existing DALL-E3 AI. Unlike its predecessor, which required users to input prompts individually to generate images, this new model integrates GPT-4o text comprehension with advanced image-generation capabilities to create more sophisticated images.
OpenAI has been steadily advancing its image-generation AI technology since launching DALL-E in January 2021, followed by DALL-E 2 in April 2022 and DALL-E 3 in September 2023.