DALL-E
DALL-E (stylized DALL·E) is an artificial intelligence program that creates images from textual descriptions, revealed by OpenAI on January 5, 2021. It uses a 12-billion parameter version of the GPT-3 Transformer model to interpret natural language inputs (such as "a green leather purse shaped like a pentagon" or "an isometric view of a sad capybara") and generate corresponding images. It can create images of realistic objects ("a stained glass window with an image of a blue strawberry") as well as objects that do not exist in reality ("a cube with the texture of a porcupine"). Its name is a portmanteau of "WALL-E" and Dalí. 

Many neural nets from the 2000s onward have been able to generate realistic images. DALL-E, however, is able to generate them from natural language prompts, which it "understands [...] and rarely fails in any serious way".

DALL-E was developed and announced to the public in conjunction with CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training), a separate model whose role is to "understand and rank" its output. The images that DALL-E generates are curated by CLIP, which presents the highest-quality images for any given prompt. OpenAI has refused to release source code for either model; a "controlled demo" of DALL-E is available on OpenAI's website, where output from a limited selection of sample prompts can be viewed. 

According to "MIT Technology Review", one of OpenAI's objectives was to "give language models a better grasp of the everyday concepts that humans use to make sense of things".
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