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OpenAI’s Sam Altman Says Indian Users Created Over 1 Billion Images With ChatGPT Images 2.0

2:48 PM IST · May 18, 2026

OpenAI's latest image generation model in ChatGPT has become massively popular in India. The company CEO, Sam Altman, revealed on Monday that Indian users have collectively generated more than one billion images using ChatGPT Images 2.0. The statistic is significant given the fact that the model was released on the chatbot's platform on April 21, meaning the milestone arrived in less than a month's time. If true, this makes the artificial intelligence (AI) model's popularity comparable to Google's Nano Banana models.