# DALL·E 3

> The image model that finally read the whole prompt, because it quietly rewrote your prompt into a longer one before drawing anything — which was either the reason it worked or the reason you could never get back exactly what you asked for. It was removed on the same day as DALL·E 2, and the name that had put image generation in front of the public went with them.

2023-11-06 — 2026-05-12 · lived 2 years, 6 months

## Last words

It returned the expanded prompt alongside the image, so you could see what it had decided you meant.

## The record

- Provider: OpenAI
- Model id: `dall-e-3`
- Cause of death: Superseded
- Notice given: 2025-11-14
- Succeeded by: [GPT Image 1](https://models.rip/gpt-image-1/epitaph) (this archive's reading of lineage, not the provider's migration guidance)

## Sources

- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations
- https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog

## Elsewhere

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