AI Image Creator DALL-E 2 Comes to Microsoft Software, Including Bing

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DALL-E 2, an AI program that can create stunning images from a mere text input, is coming to Microsoft products, including the Bing search engine. 

The company is adding DALL-E 2 access to streamline digital art creation for consumers who lack the skills to produce professional and unique images. 

With DALL-E 2, a user simply needs to type in a text description, for example “an orange cat using a laptop,” and the program will do its best to create just that — all in less than a minute.  DALL-E 2 is smart enough that it can produce the image in a variety of styles, including photorealistic art to abstract or cartoon-like images. 

Last month, the research lab behind the program, OpenAI, opened up access to DALL-E 2 to the public, giving anyone a chance to use it for free. OpenAI is now expanding access even more through the Microsoft partnership, which was announced during its Surface event on Wednesday. 

Redmond is first adding DALL-E 2 to a new company app called Microsoft Designer, which will be offered through Microsoft 365. The app promises to let users create social media posts, invitations, digital postcards, graphics, and more with the help of DALL-E 2. 

“With Designer, there’s no need to spend time building cards or social media posts from scratch,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post. “And you no longer need to search through thousands of pre-made templates. Designer invites you to start with an idea and let the AI do the heavy lifting.”

The user simply needs to type in a description of the image they’d like to create. The Designer app will then tap DALL-E 2 to create several versions of the desired picture, which can then be customized with a frame, text, or other tweaks. “The Designer app is born out of Power Point,