OpenAI officially introduced DALL-E, a 12-billion-parameter version of the GPT-3 Transformer trained to synthesize realistic digital images directly from written text prompts. Crucially, they released CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training), a neural network that learned visual concepts from raw text descriptions across 400 million internet image-text pairs, providing the mathematical alignment required to map language directly to visual pixels.
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