OpenAI Reportedly Testing New Image Model ‘luna-lisa-alpha’

The signal here is less about the image model itself than about OpenAI's release cadence: a named alpha surfacing through testing channels suggests the next image generation cycle is already in motion before any formal launch. That matters to developers and platforms that build on OpenAI's image APIs, since a version bump can shift quality, cost and rate-limit assumptions they have baked into products. The open question is whether 'luna-lisa-alpha' reaches general availability under the GPT Image 2.5 label or is scrapped in testing, as many internal builds are.