OpenAI shipped GPT Image 2.5 on September 8 with two API variants — Flare (speed, default) and Sunburst (precision) — at the same price as 2.0 ($5 text / $8 image in, $30 image out per 1M tokens), with up to 50% lower latency. The marketing-relevant upgrade isn't raw image quality; it's that the model finally respects what you asked it to leave alone. Five jobs worth rerouting, three to keep on Nano Banana 2, Midjourney V8, or Seedream 5.0 Pro, and the one sentence that captures the split.
Stop proofreading your own drafts in silence. Paste your draft into NotebookLM, generate an Audio Overview, and let two AI hosts read it back. You'll hear the awkward transitions, the parts that explain too much, and the claims that don't land — things your eyes always skip. A 6-minute, free self-editing loop that catches what re-reading misses.
