Artificial intelligence · 2021
DALL-E
Type 'an armchair in the shape of an avocado' and get pictures of one.
OpenAI's first DALL-E was a 12-billion-parameter transformer generating image tokens from text, announced in January 2021. It showed compositional text-to-image generation was possible and set off the generative image race.
What it built on 2
What it led to 1
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The dashed line marks when it first worked.
Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)
ML hardware FLOP/s per dollar Source: Epoch AI, ML hardware (CC BY 4.0)