Everything in the notebook is open-source. It mainly uses the following projects:

https://github.com/neuml/txtai https://github.com/kuprel/min-dalle

txtai workflows can be containerized and run as a cloud serverless function - https://neuml.github.io/txtai/cloud/

I assume he meant the computational cost.

OK, I misunderstood there. Running the code, which generates 15 images, on a standard GPU Colab environment takes about 2 minutes. It may be possible to submit a single batch of text summaries to the DALL-E mini model, which would improve performance a good deal.

We looked into it. At current TPU/GPU prices it's about $.60 to $.30 an image.

Was this a cost just for the DALL-E piece or the full text extraction, summarization and image generation workflow?

DALL-E mini not DALL-E, just making sure everyone has the right expectations.

Just DALL-E

Thanks, good to know.