OpenAI retires DALL-E from ChatGPT Aug 30; move to gpt-image-2
The last home for DALL-E goes dark this month, and the gpt-image-1 line you may have just migrated to is itself deprecated Dec 1 for gpt-image-2.
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DALL-E leaves ChatGPT August 30
OpenAI is pulling the DALL-E GPT from ChatGPT on August 30, closing the model's last consumer home; ChatGPT Images now runs on gpt-image-1 and gpt-image-1-mini. Export anything you want to keep before the cutoff.
In the API, DALL-E is already dead
If your code still calls dall-e-2 or dall-e-3, those snapshots were slated for retirement from the OpenAI API back on May 12 — the ChatGPT removal just closes the last door. New image work goes through the gpt-image family.
gpt-image-2 is the mandated replacement
Three shipping models — gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5, and chatgpt-image-latest — are deprecated and shut off December 1, with gpt-image-2 as the only forward path. Teams that just migrated off DALL-E now face a second forced move inside six months.
Build this weekend: audit your image calls
Grep for any dall-e-*, gpt-image-1*, or chatgpt-image-latest references and pin them to gpt-image-2 now, so a hard cutoff on Aug 30 or Dec 1 doesn't strand a broken image pipeline in production.