OpenAI opens the DALL·E 2 API in public beta
OpenAI makes DALL·E image generation and editing available to all API customers for integration into applications and products.
What happened
Event details
OpenAI opened the DALL·E API in public beta, allowing every API customer to integrate image generation and editing into applications and products. The company reported more than 3M DALL·E users generating over 4M images per day, while partner integrations included Microsoft Designer, Bing and Edge. The hosted API included content moderation and other safety mitigations, but did not expose the underlying model weights. This event records a developer-access change, not a new model release; the research preview and public web sign-up had occurred earlier.
Assessment
Why it matters
The API turned DALL·E 2 generation and editing into a general developer-platform component, substantially expanding integrations while keeping access and moderation centralized.
Availability
Access notes
All OpenAI API customers could use the DALL·E API beta; the underlying weights remained closed.