Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. In the wake of last week's release of the DALL-E API, a crowd of startups is sure to follow, racing to build generative AI for the enterprise. I thought of this as I watched coverage of 50,000 runners converging on New York City for its annual marathon yesterday. It reminded me of OpenAI's announcement last week about its Converge program, which will provide 10 early-stage startups with $1 million each and early access to its systems. "I can't think of a more interesting time to start a startup in recent memory," said OpenAI Sam Altman in a tweet about the program. That announcement came just a day before the company released the hotly anticipated DALL-E API in public beta, which means developers can now integrate DALL-E directly into their apps and products -- including many that will likely be used for a host of enterprise use cases.

On Thursday, OpenAI announced the introduction of an API for its DALL-E image synthesis model that will allow developers to easily integrate its AI image generation technology into their apps. DALL-E, currently available as a standalone commercial service, allows people to generate novel 1024x1024 images from text descriptions called "prompts." The generated images can vary in style from photorealistic to abstract--and many styles in between. OpenAI's new API allows software developers to feed an image prompt and other parameters into OpenAI's DALL-E engine over the Internet. OpenAI then generates the image on its servers and returns the image for display in the requesting app.

Did you miss a session from MetaBeat 2022? Head over to the on-demand library for all of our featured sessions here. The DALL-E API won't be officially announced until later this fall, according to OpenAI, but today the company shared details about a customer already leveraging the DALL-E API for a specific enterprise use case. New York City-based Cala, a startup that bills itself as the "world's first operating system for fashion," offers a digital platform (including a mobile app launched in March) that allows creators to design and produce clothing lines, unifying the process from product ideation through order fulfillment. With the addition of DALL-E-powered text-to-image generating tools, users can generate new visual design ideas from natural text descriptions or uploaded reference images – which the company says are first-of-its-kind capabilities for the fashion industry.