India, March 27 -- A tool that proved so popular, OpenAI had to revoke access to free users within a day of release. The company's image generation addition, released earlier this week (which CEO Sam Altman describes as "incredible technology"), is a significant step forward for ChatGPT underlined by the GPT-4o model, as it competes with growing competition.

This is not the first time a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot has proved adept at creating images based on prompts. That's something xAI's Grok and Google Gemini do too. But this may boost realism like never before, by changing the method of training.

"GPT-4o image generation excels at accurately rendering text, precisely following prompts, and leveraging 4o's inheren...