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DALL-E Is Dead: OpenAI Retires Its Image Models on May 12 — Here's What Replaces Them On May 12, 2026, OpenAI will pull the plug on DALL-E. Both DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 — the image generation models that introduced millions of people to AI-generated ar...

Amanda Silberling at TechCrunch asked ChatGPT to make a Mexican restaurant menu. Not a big deal, right? Two years ago, DALL-E 3 would have handed her "enchuita," "churiros," "burrto," and "margartas." This time, the menu came back clean. Typography s...

I opened LM Arena on a Tuesday night to A/B two image models. The one on the left had no name — just packingtape-alpha. Three renders in, I knew what I was looking at. LM Arena is the blind-comparison leaderboard for text-to-image models at arena.ai....
