DALL E

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TBPN Insight
McLaughlin: Continuous AI progress can feel weirdly discontinuous to outside users
“Even things that are continuous to us, right. Like, you know, as people that use these tools often still are sometimes weirdly discontinuous to like outsiders. Right. Or to let people that aren't as new to the product. But like, you know four O image gen is li…”
Aidan McLaughlin Apr 6, 2025 ▶ 3:15 Aidan McLaughlin (OpenAI) On ChatGPT, model welfare, and path to AGI
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated
McGrew: Aditya Ramesh spent up to two years building DALL-E 1
“I think Aditya Ramesh, who built that model, spent 18 months, maybe two years, just getting to the first version that, that clearly worked.”
Bob McGrew Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 9:50 Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
NO PRIORS Insight
Doshi: Building top image models is far harder than scaling compute and data
“It turns, turns out that, you know, I think when, if, you know, a set of strong engineers, like their first thought is that like, you just take a model architecture, you find a lot of data, you get, you fund yourself with enough compute and you just sort of li…”
Suhail Doshi Apr 18, 2024 ▶ 5:44 No Priors Ep. 60 | With Playground AI Founder Suhail Doshi
20VC Disclosure
Will Wu: Match Group designers use Midjourney and DALL-E for concepts
“I have already some product designers on my team who are using tools like mid journey or Dolly to come up with different UI concepts or visual concepts.”
Will Wu Feb 2, 2024 ▶ 44:18 Will Wu: Top Five Product Lessons from Creating Snapchat "Discover" and "Chat" | E1111 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Doshi: Ideogram Bests DALL-E at Text Synthesis in Image Models
“Ideogram has done a good job of maybe the best job. Dolly kind of has like a, it has like a hit rate.”
Suhail Doshi Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 43:22 The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Not checkable as stated
McGrew: Nobody but creator Aditya Ramesh believed DALL-E would work
“There's this researcher, Aditya Ramesh. He built a model called DALI, which allowed you to take a description and build an image out of it. He spent two years working on that. Wow. For most of those two years, no one other than him believed it would work.”
Bob McGrew Aug 18, 2023 ▶ 13:59 Ep 66: Bob McGrew — the Superstar Palantir Alum Leading OpenAI's Transformative Research Projects · Joe Lonsdale
Generative AI cuts campaign mockup time from a week to an afternoon
“On our creative group, we can come up with, like, mockups in, in, like, literally, like, one percent of the time that it took, so you no longer have to, like, draw the initial mockups for art. Suddenly, you know, what might have taken one person a week of work…”
Jonathan Becker May 7, 2023 ▶ 1:07:20 Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
Evans: Generative AI demos mirror the 2012 ImageNet breakthrough cycle
“And we're now kind of going through this again, I think, as you look at things like Dalai, or Dali, or however you pronounce it, and Imogen, and GPT-III, of again, here's something that looks like a breakthrough. Here are all these amazing demos, and the demos…”
Benedict Evans Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 1:33 Remember AI?
Evans: AI image generation requires human curation akin to photography
“It's like, you know, if I take a photograph, is the camera now the artist and not me? Well, no, it's me that decided what the picture was, and where to point it, and how to take it, and which of the 2000 pictures you took is, is the one. And, you know, I was t…”
Benedict Evans Jul 18, 2022 ▶ 15:04 Remember AI?

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