Microsoft begins rolling out Bing Image Creator to Edge, powered by OpenAI's DALL-E and accessible via Bing Chat, letting users create images from text prompts
Microsoft today announced that its new AI-enabled Bing will now allow users to generate images with Bing Chat.
TechCrunchFrederic Lardinois
Context & Ripple Effects
Microsoft had already outlined plans to put DALL-E 2 into Designer, Bing and Edge; this rollout makes that planned image-generation integration a user-facing part of its search and browser experience.
Bing Chat and Edge users can move from a text prompt to a generated image without leaving Microsoft's search-and-browser environment.
Microsoft gains a more visibly multimodal use case for Bing and Edge, while OpenAI's DALL-E is placed in front of that consumer audience.
Second-order effects
The addition raises the bar for search and browser assistants: rivals must compete not only on conversational answers but on integrated creation tools.
Keeping image generation inside Bing and Edge gives Microsoft another surface on which to layer related AI features, as it later did with AI-generated shopping guides in Bing.
Third-order effects
If such features remain embedded in everyday browsing, search products may increasingly compete as AI work surfaces rather than primarily as retrieval interfaces.
The pattern concentrates consumer access to generative models in a small number of platform-controlled entry points, making model partnerships and distribution more strategically linked.
The trend:Generative AI is shifting from standalone tools into embedded search and browser workflows that combine discovery, assistance and creation.
Microsoft is adding Bing Image Creator to Bing Chat, starting in the “creative” mode. Testers can type a description of an image, provide additional context and Image Creator will generate an image. Also available as a preview in Bing Chatin Edge: https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
Excited to share that Bing Image Creator is rolling out to the new Bing and Edge preview today. Now you can create an image by simply using your own words to describe the picture you want to see. (1/4) https://twitter.com/...
This is rolling out in Creative mode, but we'll be bringing it to Balanced and Precise modes, too. Stay tuned for updates. Currently, Bing Image Creator is only available in English. We are working to build additional language support over time. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ... (…
Introducing image creation in the new Bing and Edge. Now you can use Bing Chat to create images with just your words. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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