Starting today, we are removing the waitlist for the DALL·E beta so users can sign up(opens in a new window) and start using it immediately. More than 1.5M users are now actively creating over 2M images a day with DALL·E, from artists and creative directors to authors and architects, with over 100K users sharing their creations and feedback in our Discord community.
Responsibly scaling a system as powerful and complex as DALL·E—while learning about all the creative ways it can be used and misused—has required an iterative deployment approach.
Since we first previewed the DALL·E research to users in April, users have helped us discover new uses for DALL·E as a powerful creative tool. Artists, in particular, have provided important input on DALL·E’s features.
“Cyberpunk cat, 90s Japan anime style” by OpenAI
“Wildflowers, grassy field, autumn rhythm, watercolor” by OpenAI
“Running at the edge of space, toward a planet, calm, reaching the abyss, digital art” by OpenAI
Their feedback inspired us to build features like Outpainting, which lets users continue an image beyond its original borders and create bigger images of any size, and collections—so users can create in all new ways and expedite their creative processes.
Learning from real-world use has allowed us to improve our safety systems, making wider availability possible today. In the past months, we’ve made our filters more robust at rejecting attempts to generate sexual, violent and other content that violates our content policy(opens in a new window) and built new detection and response techniques to stop misuse.
We are currently testing a DALL·E API with several customers and are excited to soon offer it more broadly to developers and businesses so they can build apps on this powerful system.
We can’t wait to see what users from around the world create with DALL·E. Sign up(opens in a new window) today and start creating.
Our journey over the past few months includes:
September 2022
DALL·E beta is available without a waitlist, over 1.5M users creating more than 2M images per day
July 2022
Outpainting is added to the Edit tool
June 2022
DALL·E available in beta with pricing, which enabled onboarding over 1 million users
April 2022
1,000 users per week onboarded to research preview
March 2022
DALL·E 2 paper(opens in a new window) published and Research Preview available to 200 artists, researchers, and trusted users
November 2021
First version of GLIDE paper(opens in a new window) is published
April 2021
Diffusion models outperform GANs on ImageNet synthesis(opens in a new window)
December 2020
OpenAI announces the first DALL·E and open-sources CLIP