More specifically from that link:
> [...] the image is represented using 1024 tokens with a vocabulary size of 8192.
> The images are preprocessed to 256x256 resolution during training. Similar to VQVAE, each image is compressed to a 32x32 grid of discrete latent codes using a discrete VAE1 that we pretrained using a continuous relaxation.
OpenAI also provides the encoder and decoder models and their weights.
However, with the decoder model, it's now possible to say train a text-encoding model to link up to that decoder (training on say an annotated image dataset) to get something close to the DALL-E demo OpenAI posted. Or something even better!