Co-created Dall-E Mini (now named Craiyon, and I am not involved anymore).
It was among the first text to language models created independently. And it was fully open source.
It also got covered by New York Times in the article covering Dall-E 2 by Cade Metz.
Links:
- GitHub: https://github.com/borisdayma/dalle-mini
- Hugging Face Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/flax-community/dalle-mini
- NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/technology/openai-images-...
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(I know this is not as much impactful as others in this thread. But I did this after less than 2 years after transitioning to tech from Physics, and at the age of 22.)