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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where DALL E comes up on the a16z Podcast, Big Technology, Another Podcast, All-In, Latent Space
Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
- ▶ 14:04 unnamed speaker This was pretty common when we went from like, uh, Clip and Dali, right?
Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
- ▶ 33:25 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, it is, uh, I've, I've tested like crazy every one of these image generators from Dolly on out.
SpaceX-Cursor Deal, ChatGPT Images 2.0, Fake Bear Scam | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:41 unnamed speaker So originally like when, when like Dolly first came out, the, the like image that everyone was like, oh, this is crazy.
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 43:53 Balaji Srinivasan Um, just like Midjourney, you know, took, uh, took Dali's job, took Stable Diffusion's job.
AI is Already Building AI — Google DeepMind’s Mostafa Dehghani
- ▶ 51:01 Mostafa Dehghani Like Dolly or Imagine or, or standalone image model, right?
AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
- ▶ 45:18 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I don't know if everybody, anyone saw that coming, or maybe we did because they had Dolly. 2 times in the scene
What The Citrini Selloff Says About the Stock Market
- ▶ 7:12 John Coogan The early Dolly experiments and like the nano bananas, like it's, it has felt like, like something happens and I'm like,
He pivoted at $1M ARR—then raised $120M. | Kevin Tian, Co-Founder of Doppel · PMF Show
- ▶ 21:45 Kevin Tian Mid-Journey at the time, Dolly, right, is they were really just reversals of that same model.
How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
- ▶ 44:20 Sherman Wu Uh, so Dolly, Dolly.
#2282 Neil Patel’s insanely powerful AI sales machine
- ▶ 45:21 unnamed speaker And here is again ChatGPT using Dolly model to generate the image.
DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
- ▶ 1:59 Alessio Fanelli OG Dev Day, which was the DALI hack night at OpenAI in twenty-twenty-two, and I think Sam spoke to like 30 people, so I think it's just crazy to see the
Paul Graham Said His Startup Was Worthless—2 Months Later He Hit $1M ARR. | Jon Noronha, Co-Found... · PMF Show
- ▶ 36:22 Jon Noronha So I was seeing people sharing all these AI-generated images online, uh, started with, I think, Dolly, and then it was stable diffusion, and they weren't actually good yet, but they were exciting.
I quit my job to make $6M/year with AI apps
- ▶ 16:27 unnamed speaker Um, for the nerds, it predates Midjourney and Stable Diffusion and Dali, and was basically the first time that image generation went viral.
The State of AI: Growth, Fragmentation, and the Next Wave
- ▶ 4:16 Martin Casado And then they were actually the first to image, really, with Dali.
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- ▶ 1:24:54 Nick Turley Uh, Joanne, uh, I had messaged her about getting off the Dolly waitlist, and she said, hey, only if you interview here. 3 times in the scene
The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- ▶ 2:43 Stephanie Palazzolo oh my god, let me show you this, like, funny app called Dolly, and, like, we're gonna make pictures of, like, cats floating in space, and it's, like, so funny and cool,
The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
- ▶ 1:36 Burkay Gur Dali happened.
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 2:19:11 Alessio Fanelli Figure out real time because ChatGPT and Dali, Dali, RIP, are too slow.
a16z GP, Martin Casado: Anthropic vs OpenAI & Why Open Source is a National Security Risk with China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:29 Martin Casado And they were first to image with Dali, and they lost that.
Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
- ▶ 3:00 Balaji Srinivasan At, uh, at how much better GPT, like DALI was a hint, you know, in, in the early, early, early, early, but I was surprised at how coherent chat GPT was.
He went viral at 11 y/o—built the world's best dictation app, then raised a $30M Series A. | Tana... · PMF Show
- ▶ 22:02 unnamed speaker So he's actually one of the people who invented diffusion models, which is now like mid journey, open AI's Dolly and everything else.
Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- ▶ 33:41 unnamed speaker Is it Dolly?
How NVIDIA, Meta & Dropbox Taught Me To Build Great Products | Vasanth, Founder - Featurely
- ▶ 29:51 Vasanth Namasivayam Along with the fact that around the same time as ChatGPT, you had Dali coming out from opening AI as well.
- ▶ 51:04 Vasanth Namasivayam A second big company which I think is amazing in the AI world is, um, um, all the, like DALI, the specific product from OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
- ▶ 18:59 Chamath Palihapitiya And what we have to remember is what OpenAI got from Microsoft was an extremely competent partner that built an enormous Azure compute infrastructure to train everything from ChatGPT all the way up to the O-three model, DALI, everything.
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:43 Michael Truell And then, uh, DALI
How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
- ▶ 31:26 Shaan Puri And then all of a sudden, like Dolly and these other tools came out.
Harvey Firestone: Men and Rubber [Outliers]
- ▶ 20:12 Shane Parrish It really went mainstream with Dali, and all you could do is make these silly little images, and people laughed, and now, just a few years later, it's taking over jobs.
What Does it Take to Be Good at Series A and B Today? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:56 unnamed speaker Um, I suspect, I, I think OpenAI and JGPD win most of the LLM type categories, like, you know, I used to use mid-journey, but like DALI is so good, and it's part of my subscription, like I just don't use mid-journey anymore, and that's…
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
- ▶ 1:01:22 Michael Truell There's no DALI.
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 2:57 Bret Taylor Uh, one that I don't think I really appreciated how huge it would be, but it kind of reset my expectation, which was the launch of Dolly, uh, in the summer of.
Aidan McLaughlin (OpenAI) On ChatGPT, model welfare, and path to AGI
- ▶ 3:29 Aidan McLaughlin Like we went from like Dolly to this and it was like this massive jump.
OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
- ▶ 12:38 Alex Kantrowitz And by the way, it's no coincidence that this all comes within chat GPT and not within Dolly.
Avoiding vulnerabilities in AI code
- ▶ 11:41 AI Security Researcher Um, it will generate a prompt that it feeds to another AI called Dolly. 2 times in the scene
Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl
- ▶ 3:56 Alex Kantrowitz Now there's been so many other releases they've done, better models, they incorporated Dalian, um, which is image generation, so that might have done part of it.
I built an AI startup in 65 minutes (using ChatGPT, Leonardo AI, Kling AI, ElevenLabs)
- ▶ 14:25 unnamed speaker Like, if you just, you know, uh, ask ChatGPT to create you an image using Dali,
The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
- ▶ 40:21 Karina Nguyen Like, Canvas plus Dalek, Canvas plus Search.
Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:44 Bob McGrew Um, if you think about Dolly, which was, you know, how do you take text and make an image out of it?
AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
- ▶ 11:22 Shawn Wang I guess Dali would have one.
Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- ▶ 42:17 unnamed speaker Figure out real time because ChatGPT and Dali, Dali, the RIP are too slow.
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 3:01:35 John Coogan Feel free to get on chat GPT, uh, Dolly and, and create some, uh,
Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise)
- ▶ 12:19 Aman Khan I think that becomes so much more approachable with tools like mid journey or even Dali.
- ▶ 22:55 Lenny Rachitsky You can storyboard out your ideas using the stuff you mentioned, Majorney and Dolly and things like that.
Truth Terminal - The AI Bot That Became a Crypto Millionaire
- ▶ 18:58 Marc Andreessen Built into its exocortex and API out to an image generator, um, and then it started, it started, and then it started, it started generating text prompts for, you know, you know, like Dolly, you know, an image generator like that, or stable…
Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- ▶ 7:31 Shawn Wang It was like, I was like, is Dolly it? 2 times in the scene
Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
- ▶ 3:06 Parmy Olson ChatGPT did in November, 20, 22 and Dolly before that.
No Priors Ep. 81 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
iPhone16 Arrives + Apple Intelligence Delays
- ▶ 8:48 Alex Kantrowitz That's something that you can do with Dolly or a number of other image generators today.
- ▶ 11:37 Ranjan Roy But a company like Apple is not something like the, like, you know, generate an image like Dolly or mid journey or whatever else.
- ▶ 19:19 Ranjan Roy Like generating songs from scratch did not exist a year from ago, six months ago, you could do it like still waiting when mid journey and Dolly and all these other companies are just pushing
OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation
- ▶ 8:35 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, every dolly image you're creating, every, uh, every API call.
Creator tools you can build that will print money
- ▶ 32:28 Greg Isenberg Um, or was it, you know, created with Dolly eight at this point?
John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, Founder of Soylent & Lucy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:05:27 John Coogan Like, you know, oh, I, I described, I tell you a little bit about my son and, you know, chat GPT writes a little, you know, like script and does some layout and there's some dolly images.
An inside look at “Mastering AI” | Jeremy Kahn, Author & AI Editor, Fortune
- ▶ 23:59 Jeremy Kahn And I think with, with interesting results and it, and ultimately it depends on knowing that you can't just take the, this is not just like taking Dolly or something and giving it a prompt and then, oh, look, I'm going to go hang the, the…
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 31:25 Marc Andreessen So, so Photoshop plus AI editing versus mid journey or Dolly.
Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
- ▶ 32:24 Sam Schillace Now you just go ask Dolly or Stable Diffusion or whatever to generate that picture, and it happens pretty quickly.
Episode 715 | Best Uses of the Internet, a Book about Selling You...
- ▶ 4:48 Dr. Sherry Walling And so of course, like a good, uh, tech person, I go to Dolly and get some cool images that depict this idea of the mind, body, and soul in this certain color scheme that we're using as characters in the show.
The 5 Most Interesting Billionaires Alive...
- ▶ 8:01 Shaan Puri This is what Dali would give me.
I Make $1M/Month From Bed
- ▶ 11:46 Colin McIntosh And then I use a stock image for image creation as well as Dolly.
Sam Altman: Getting Fired (and Re-Hired) by OpenAI, Agents, AI Copyright issues
- ▶ 40:22 Jason Calacanis We were trying to do Star Wars characters in Dolly.
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 42:46 Marc Andreessen Or maybe, uh, maybe, uh, maybe Dolly can design the, uh, the next, uh, set of clothes.
No Priors Ep.61 | OpenAI's Sora Leaders Aditya Ramesh, Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles
- ▶ 8:44 Tim Brooks So Sora builds on research from both the DALI models and the GPT models at OpenAI, and diffusion is a process that creates data, in our case, videos, by starting from noise and iteratively removing noise many times until eventually you've…
- ▶ 17:11 Sarah Guo so I don't know if this is, like, something to be judged for or not, but one of the things I do today is, um, generate what amount to, like, short audiobooks with voice cloning, um, dolly images, and, you know, stories in the style of,…
How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
- ▶ 3:06 Gregory Galant This is the first name club logo, which I made with Dolly last night.
No Priors Ep. 60 | With Playground AI Founder Suhail Doshi
- ▶ 3:10 Suhail Doshi And so at the time with, with, um, images, there was just sort of, I think there was Midjourney, there was OpenAI doing some DALI stuff, and then you saw sort of stable diffusion.
Why Marissa Mayer Is Betting Big On Consumer Tech
- ▶ 20:00 Marissa Mayer Both in text generation, uh, chat GPT, as well as with Dolly.
Making Transformers Sing - with Mikey Shulman of Suno
- ▶ 18:52 Alessio Fanelli Um, versus in Suno, you have this empty box, very mid journey, kind of like Dali, like where you can just express the vibes, you know, of, of what you want it to be.
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 37:42 Ben Firshman Is it was open source, so you could like, compared to like Dali, for example, which was like sort of equivalent quality.
E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
- ▶ 21:58 David Sacks So, I mean, obviously I haven't used Soria because it just came out today, but I've used Dolly, which is just their prompt, uh, image service, and I was designing the label for, or the bottle for the all-in tequila for you guys.
The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
Will Wu: Top Five Product Lessons from Creating Snapchat "Discover" and "Chat" | E1111 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Why Meta Wants To Build Artificial General Intelligence — With Joelle Pineau, VP of Meta AI Research
- ▶ 39:26 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, it's one thing to sort of type in, draw me a picture and you get one out from Dolly or, or meta has one, an image generator as well, but the video generation seems pretty wild.
E160: 2024 Predictions! Markets, tech, politics, and more
- ▶ 28:12 Jason Calacanis But if you think about the Disney characters, you know, let's, I don't know if you saw Nintendo and Disney characters, you know, making stuff on Dolly or other things.
The Accidental AI Canvas - with Steve Ruiz of tldraw
- ▶ 44:00 Steve Ruiz And, um, people have done this also with, with imagery, uh, to say, okay, well, here are, we're going to use Dali, and we're going to kind of, like, make a tree of prompts as you go, you know, different iterations based on, um, which,…
The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
- ▶ 10:29 unnamed speaker Dolly was like, alright, that's, that's cool, I don't know. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:36 unnamed speaker Um, so you mentioned Dolly, Stable Diffusion.
- ▶ 54:02 Suhail Doshi So they might not use like these users probably, you know, the average Dell user is probably not going to use control net.
- ▶ 1:04:21 unnamed speaker And just to wrap, we talked about some of the pivotal moments in your mind with like Dali and whatnot.
E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- ▶ 57:07 Jason Calacanis It has Dolly in it.
Big Ideas 2024: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX with Alex Immerman
- ▶ 11:29 Alex Immerman So on the aggregation front, Po brings together leading models like GBT, Claude, Bard for text, Stable Diffusion, DALI for image, and many others.
Steal These 6 Startup Ideas For 2024 | Theo Tabah & Jordan Mix
- ▶ 10:40 Greg Isenberg Is there going to be a service that of course provides some value, but I think that in an AI generated world, like people are looking for partners, not service providers, um, because service providers are just going to be tools like…
The 2023 Milly Awards (#531)
- ▶ 43:51 Andrew Wilkinson Um, Dolly and all these image generation tools can now create photorealistic images, and I don't know if you guys have seen them, but there's now Instagram influencers, um, who are beautiful men and women who make 10,000 dollars a month on…
E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
- ▶ 31:14 Jason Calacanis And actually you're starting to see this in, uh, Dolly and chat GPT seems to be getting ahead of this because of all the incoming lawsuits. 3 times in the scene
How I raised a $15m Series B in a downturn
- ▶ 17:39 Jamie Akhtar Um, this image, by the way, random fact, generated by AI, I was like, I want two sherpas walking up a mountain in a snowstorm, and I couldn't find it on Google, so Dali produced that.
The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 34:27 Dylan Patel Open source will, will match GPT-IV, but then it's like, what about GPT-IV vision, or what about, you know, uh, five and six, and, you know, all these kind of stuff, and like, Interact tool use, and Dolly, and like, that's the other thing,…
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 35:58 Marc Andreessen Yeah, you see there's a bunch of memes now, um, you know, just with, like, uh, Dali and Midjourney for image generation, you know, the, the ability to use, like, basically art, to the art is, like, expressive humor, um, so the, the meme in…
Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
- ▶ 6:38 Alex Kantrowitz ChatGPT and Dahlia on the transformer model, which was developed inside Google.
- ▶ 9:31 Alex Kantrowitz She's shepherded a lot of the chat GPT and Dolly work. 2 times in the scene
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:17 Des Traynor Um, but if you take, say like, um, some people are building on top of say Dolly or something like that, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:26 Des Traynor A combination of LLMs and Dolly and put on a headset and live in that world.
How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
- ▶ 53:18 Guillermo Rauch I think this is what Midjourney did so well, where for one of our conferences in the past, for Next.js Conf, we ended up using DALI for brainstorming what the artwork of Next.js Conf is going to be.
Perplexity AI CEO on Dethroning Google & Redefining Search
- ▶ 7:55 Aravind Srinivas That's sort of the idea, and so some, some, some of the hits through that mode of research for OpenAI has been, um, I would say that DALI is, like, a big project that came out of, like, you know, that kind of research, so I was also…
RAG is a hack - with Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex
Secure, Private, Powerful: Dust’s Vision for Enterprise AI Agents | Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 16:20 Matt Turck Like, is there like a group that works on, uh, whatever Deli and another group that works on, uh, GBD three or four?
Ep 66: Bob McGrew — the Superstar Palantir Alum Leading OpenAI's Transformative Research Projects · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 14:01 Bob McGrew He built a model called DALI, which allowed you to take a description and, and build an image out of it. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 28 | With Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan
No Priors Ep. 24 | With Devi Parikh from Meta
- ▶ 8:37 Devi Parikh So this was like after DALI one had happened. 2 times in the scene
Building LlamaIndex: Jerry Liu on Scaling Retrieval-Augmented AI
Ep 61: High School Dropout to Billion-Dollar Startup; the Story of Guillermo Rauch & Vercel · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 44:26 Joe Lonsdale So you're like some of this new AI where people like Dolly and things like that.
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 22:29 Marc Andreessen Um, and I think part of that is just, like, because we live in a connected world now, um, and the fact that anybody on the planet could just, like, click in and start to use ChatGPT or MidJourney or Dolly or, you know, Bing or any of these…
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