ImageAPI only
DALL·E
OpenAI
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Superseded by DALL·E 2
Specifications
- Type
- Image
- Access
- API only
- Released
- January 5, 2021
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Image
Our take
The model that made text-to-image generation famous, showing a Transformer could turn captions like "an armchair in the shape of an avocado" into images.