Generative artificial intelligence technologies are what rule the technology industry today.
Microsoft on Tuesday added a brand new feature, Bing Image Creator, new AI-powered visual Stories and updated Knowledge Cards to the new Bing and Edge preview, making the new Bing more visual.
The new service can generate custom images and is powered by "an advanced version" of OpenAI's DALL-E model.
The tech giant had introduced a new version of its Bing search engine in February that included a chatbot powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 language technology.
With better search, complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to create content, the ChatGPT backed tool is reinventing how people search with more than 100 million chats to date.
Ever since the announcement, tech companies are incorporating the same to make their products better.
The company has now boosted new Bing by adding an AI-backed copilot to it. It had announced an AI-powered office suite recently.
With the new Bing Image Creator which acts like your creative copilot, you can now create an image of any kind and form by typing out a description in the Bing search engine or Bing Chat.
It will then conjure up an original image "simply by using your own words to describe the picture you want to see," said Microsoft's head of consumer marketing Yusuf Mehdi.
Just typing something like “draw an image” or “create an image” as a prompt in chat can give you a visual for a newsletter to friends or as inspiration for redecorating your living room. You can generate both written and visual content in one place, from within chat.
At present, there is a limit of 25 images/day per user and once the users run out of boosts, the images might take longer to generate, says new Bing.
Image Creator is initially available in the "Creative mode" of Bing Chat. It will also be available in Edge by clicking the Bing Image Creator icon in the sidebar to create your image.
According to Bing data, images are one of the most searched categories after general web searches. Historically, search was limited to images that already existed on the web. Now, there are almost no limits to what you can search for and create.
A day after Google announced an API for its PaLM language model and AI-integration for Google Docs, Microsoft came up with the release of generative AI in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and the rest of its of work and productivity apps.