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by swyx 1204 days ago
> even Microsoft, which partially owns OpenAI, is giving up on DALL-E

hold on to your wild extrapolations there. this is a paper by 6 people from Microsoft Research Asia, which seems based out of China. 6 researchoors publishing a thing independently does not mean Microsoft "giving up on DALL-E".
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ShamelessC 1203 days ago
Yeah I agree that GP is hyperbole. Still though, at the very least it shows that the researchers found it easier to work with weights they could run locally rather than via another API call.

I assume this is because DALLE2 still doesn’t provide embeddings and/or finetuning via API. In addition to likely being more expensive to run.

Happy to be corrected on any of this - I still haven’t read the paper.

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