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What is DALL-E 3?

Generative Media (Image, Video & Audio)AI & Agents

Kind
Model
Released
2026-10-22
Cohort
model-001

Description

What it is and what it is for

AI-assisted draft · independently checked

A text-to-image model is a machine learning system that takes a written description and produces a picture matching it. A hard part is faithfulness: OpenAI notes that such systems tend to ignore words or descriptions, which forces people to learn prompt engineering, the craft of wording requests so the system follows them. DALL-E 3 is an image-generation model from OpenAI, which the maker describes as built to generate images that adhere to the text it is given. OpenAI's announcement says it was built natively on ChatGPT, so that ChatGPT could act as a brainstorming partner and refiner of the prompt. OpenAI announced it in September 2023.

Written from primary sources and reference pages, and checked against them by an independent AI fact-checker. Drafted with AI assistance.

Primary sources

Where this description comes from

  1. DALL·E 3OpenAIVendor

A plain-language summary that simplifies technical detail; it does not assess readiness, maturity or adoption.

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