ChatGPT’s AI Image Feature Delayed for Free Users Due to Overwhelming Demand

ChatGPT’s AI image feature rollout for free users is delayed due to high demand.
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ChatGPT’s AI Image Feature Delayed for Free Users Due to Overwhelming Demand
OpenAI’s latest AI image feature for ChatGPT has hit an unexpected roadblock. Despite the company's high expectations, demand for image generation has far exceeded projections, causing a delay in the rollout for free-tier users.  Image:Google Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, confirmed the delay on Wednesday via a post on X, stating, “Images in ChatGPT are way more popular than we expected (and we had pretty high expectations).” While OpenAI initially announced that GPT-4o’s native image generation capabilities would be available to all ChatGPT users, as of now, the feature remains exclusive to paid subscribers on ChatGPT Pro, Plus, and Teams. Why the Delay? Compute Power Is the Bottleneck OpenAI’s recent product launches have faced similar issues, primarily due to limited computing capacity. Following the debut of Sora, the company's text-to-video AI model, in December, OpenAI had to temporarily halt signups due to overwhelming demand. Now, ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities are en…