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Latent Space's AINews weekday roundup for April 20-21, 2026 confirms OpenAI's launch of GPT-Image-2 on both the API and ChatGPT on April 21, 2026, noting that the release had previously circulated as a stealth model on Arena. The newsletter highlights both Thinking and non-thinking variants and frames GPT-Image-2 as co The same item situates the image launch against a rumored "focus" sprint following the shutdown and departure of the Sora team and points readers to OpenAI's own blogpost, livestream, and prepared demonstration videos for first-party detail. The roundup does not document Azure-specific availability, regional rollout, o