Microsoft said it will \u201csoon\u201d bring DALL-E 2-powered AI art to Windows with a new Microsoft Designer app and a separate, related Microsoft Image Creator toolset to Bing and Microsoft Edge.<\/p>\n
AI art is all the rage right now, with various tools such as Craiyon providing basic ways of creating AI art. Midjourney is a more advanced AI art service that provides a step up in functionality. Meanwhile, the godfather of AI art, DALL-E, is now free to try as well. <\/p>\n
What\u2019s interesting, though, is that OpenAI, the developers of DALL-E, have moved on to the more sophisticated DALL-E 2 algorithm, which is locked behind beta access right now. It\u2019s this algorithm that Microsoft is promising access to, via the Microsoft Designer app. DALL-E, like other AI art engines, generates images based on text prompts you write, so that a text prompt like \u201ca sunrise over an alien world, populated with dinosaurs\u201d can give you a custom, potentially unique illustration.<\/p>\n
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\u201cDesigner helps you create from your own content or ideas and makes it easy to design social media posts, invitations, and much more, fast,\u201d chief product officer Panos Panay wrote in a blog post, while announcing new Surface hardware like the Surface Pro 9, Surface Laptop 5, and the Surface Studio 2+. \u201cIt also automatically helps you get a variety of unique images and designs that are generated just for you. I\u2019m so excited for this app, it\u2019s going to be a game changer for me personally.\u201d<\/p>\n
That Microsoft joined the AI art revolution isn\u2019t surprising in the least. AI art demands substantial computational power and memory, whether it be on your own PC via tools like Stable Diffusion, or in the cloud. Most cloud services either charge for membership or use a credit-based system. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft Designer will be part of Microsoft 365, which is paid for by an annual subscription, anyway. Tapping into Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud as a part of the Microsoft 365 subscription seems like a natural fit.<\/p>\n
Microsoft hasn\u2019t said whether it will make Designer available on an a la carte basis, or whether it will allow unlimited Microsoft Designer creations as part of the Microsoft 365 subscription. It\u2019s also unclear how Designer will interact with Image Creator, and whether Microsoft will require a Microsoft 365 subscription for that, too. We also don\u2019t know what size of the finished images Microsoft will allow, whether it provide suggested prompts or styles, or allows for outpainting (editing part of an image), image-to-image prompts, and more.<\/p>\n
Still, Microsoft seems to understand that AI art is a viable creative pursuit, and the wave of the future. \u201cThe integration of Microsoft AI and DALL\u2219E 2 in our new Microsoft Designer app is an amazing example of AI assistance blurring the lines between the platform, the device, and the cloud, all so you can express yourself even better,\u201d Panay wrote. \u201cSaving time and improving creative outcomes, regardless of your level of expertise.\u201d<\/p>\n
We didn\u2019t have immediate access to what Microsoft Designer looks like, so we just asked an AI (DreamStudio) what it might look like. We\u2019ll have to see how it did!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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