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January 5
DALL-E
System
DALL-E
Series
OpenAI
Venue
OpenAI, San Francisco, California
Date
January 5, 2021
Lab
OpenAI
Nickname
OpenAI unveils DALL-E for text-to-image generation
Researchers
Aditya Ramesh
Ilya Sutskever

OpenAI unveils DALL-E for text-to-image generation

OpenAI announced DALL-E on January 5, 2021, a model that generated original images from natural-language captions, including surreal prompts like an armchair in the shape of an avocado. It demonstrated that transformer-based models could bridge language and vision creatively. DALL-E helped launch the wave of consumer text-to-image generative tools.

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