Gemini 2.5 Pro vs ChatGPT: Can Google’s AI create free Ghibli-style images?
Google rolled out its latest Gemini 2.5 Pro language model to non-paying users on Sunday, amid a raging trend for Studio Ghibli-style images driven by ChatGPT's native image creation capabilities. Google's official release blog for Gemini 2.5 Pro does not mention whether the latest model has native image generation capabilities or which external model it relies on for image generation. Having used the Gemini 2.5 Pro model, it is clear that the chatbot relies on Google's Imagen 3 model for image generation, which makes it intrinsically different from the superior native image generation capabilities of GPT-4o running ChatGPT. Gemini 2.5 Pro generated 'Ghibli' style image Ghibli inspired image generated using Grok Ghibli style image generated using ChatGPT free tier What is Studio Ghibli?
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