Filed under Image · 2026
DALL-E 2
2022 - 2026, 4 years old
OpenAI's second-generation text-to-image model that opened consumer AI image generation to a mass audience.
DALL-E 2 launched in April 2022 as an invite-only beta, opened to the public that September, and became the first image generator most people ever used. By 2023 it had been displaced inside OpenAI's own product by DALL-E 3, and by 2025 by the gpt-image family. OpenAI sent a deprecation notice on November 14, 2025, and removed DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 from the API on May 12, 2026, pointing developers to gpt-image-1 and gpt-image-1-mini. The model that proved a market existed was retired three years after creating it.
- Founded
- 2022-04
- Shut down
- 2026-05-12
- Funding raised
- Undisclosed
- Years alive
- 4
- Founders
- OpenAI