It was among the first text to language models created independently. And it was fully open source.
It also got covered by New York Times in the article covering Dall-E 2 by Cade Metz.
Links:
- GitHub: https://github.com/borisdayma/dalle-mini
- Hugging Face Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/flax-community/dalle-mini
- NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/technology/openai-images-...
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(I know this is not as much impactful as others in this thread. But I did this after less than 2 years after transitioning to tech from Physics, and at the age of 22.)