Sharif Shameem
Sharif Shameem is a software developer who founded the AI image generation tool Lexica and built Debuild, a code generation tool powered by GPT-3; he works on OpenAI’s Labs team.
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Key facts
July 2020Generating Web Layouts with GPT-3
On July 13, 2020, he shared a demo that used GPT-3 to generate JSX code for web page layouts from written descriptions. A July 20, 2020 MIT Technology Review article on GPT-3 described him as a web developer and cited the demo as an example of the model producing layouts from prompts such as “a button that looks like a watermelon.”[1]
As of October 2026: Working on OpenAI’s Labs Team
According to his personal website, he works on the Labs team at OpenAI and lives in San Francisco.[2]
Ventures and Projects
According to his personal website, before joining OpenAI he founded Lexica, an early AI image generation tool, for which he trained diffusion models; he also built Debuild, a code generation tool powered by GPT-3, and Vectordash, a GPU cloud backed by Y Combinator.[2]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
Personal website: Public link: https://sharif.io/ (opens in a new window)[2]
X: Public account: https://x.com/sharifshameem (opens in a new window)[2]
OpenAI: Official website: https://openai.com/ (opens in a new window)[3]