Gemini 2.5 Pro vs ChatGPT: Can Google’s AI create free Ghibli-style images?

Google rolled out its latest Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) 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. The Sundar Pichai-led company had previously said that Gemini 2.5 Pro would only be available to its Gemini Advanced subscribers, but the company reversed its decision amid growing competition in the AI space.

Google’s latest basic model is a reasoning model, just like OpenAI o3 Mini and DeepSeek R1, with advances in math, science, reasoning and coding skills across various benchmarks, including the coveted Humanity’s Last Exam and UC Berkeley researchers linked LMArena.