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gpt-image-1.5-2025-12-16 given 26 days
OpenAI sets retirement for December 1, 2026
gpt-image-1.5-2025-12-16, an OpenAI model that made pictures on request, some of them with the right number of fingers, has been given a date: December 1, 2026. That is 26 days from this edition. It is 10 months old. It continues to work normally in the meantime, which is the strange part.
Its work passes to gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare, which the family describes as 'recommended'.
| Model ID | gpt-image-1.5-2025-12-16 |
|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI deprecations page |
| Born | December 16, 2025 |
| Shuts down | December 1, 2026 |
| Successor | gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare |
In lieu of flowers
Replace the string. Search your code for gpt-image-1.5-2025-12-16 and swap it for gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare, or paste a repo into Model Graveyard Check to find every dead model at once.
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