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Researcher
Alex Nichol
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff
Nichol helped make diffusion models, which build images by gradually removing noise, practical for image generation. With Prafulla Dhariwal, he showed they could outperform leading rival methods. He co-created GLIDE and DALL-E 2 for making images from text, and Point-E for generating 3D shapes.
Career & education
Current roleOpenAI2020-presentMember of Technical Staff
OpenAI2020-presentWork and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
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