Stable Diffusion + DALL-E 2 + ChatGPT

2022

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO — pictured at TechCrunch SF 2019, three years before ChatGPT launched on November 30, 2022 and crossed 100 million users in two months. Three diffusion / transformer models drop within months of each other in 2022: DALL-E 2 (April), Stable Diffusion open-source release (August), ChatGPT (November 30). Synthetic image and text generation cross the chasm into mainstream. The first time the medium starts producing itself.