DALL·E
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- OpenAI
- C · CEO & Politics
- Sam Altman — Independent; self-described 'politically homeless' (2025); former Democratic donor; $1M personal donation to Trump inaugural fund (2025)
- D · Date
- 2021
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- No free tier
- G · Generates
- Images
- H · Deployment
- Research
- I · Inputs
- Text→Image
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Greg Brockman (President), Jakub Pachocki (Chief Scientist), Brad Lightcap (COO), Fidji Simo (CEO Applications), Sarah Friar (CFO), Mark Chen (SVP Research), Denise Dresser (CRO)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Image Generation
- N · Safety Issues
- Synthetic media risks: potential copyright/style imitation issues, deepfake or deceptive content misuse, bias in generated outputs, and prompt/NSFW policy bypass attempts.
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- Not sold (research model)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- OpenAI's original DALL·E, which generates images from text with a transformer that autoregressively models text and image tokens as a single stream of data; with enough data and scale, OpenAI found it competitive with earlier domain-specific models in zero-shot evaluation.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private (~$852B valuation, Mar 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @OpenAI
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Image Generation from OpenAI, released 2021.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“DALL·E.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/dalle.html
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