MICROSOFT is adding artificial intelligence to its platform at lightning speeds. In the latest preview of Bing, the Windows maker introduced generative AI-assisted Knowledge Card 2.0 and Stories in Bing, the company announced in a blog on March 24. With'Stories', Bing can draft AI-generated stories to help users consume information via small data packets. It will use "text, images, video and audio" to deliver the results. These cater to "visual and auditory learners" and are available in different languages. "English, French, Japanese, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and Arabic" are the supported languages, Microsoft adds.

Microsoft is taking its integration of AI tools one step further with the rollout of Bing Image Creator. The new AI-powered image creation tool can create images from a text prompt and harnesses OpenAI's impressive DALL-E model to bring your words to life (well, still life). Better still, Microsoft Bing Image Creator is free to use, meaning you can create completely new, AI-generated images from scratch with almost zero limitations. The Official Microsoft Blog revealed the launch of Bing Image Creator on 21 March 2023, and it is the next step in Microsoft's plans for generative AI content following the launch of its Bing AI Chat. Bing AI Chat uses OpenAI's GPT-4 model to power its responses. But Bing Image Creator uses another of OpenAI's powerful array of artificial intelligence models, DALL-E, to turn text prompts into images.

Following on from the integration of ChatGPT into the Bing search engine, Microsoft have now followed up by integrating another of OpenAI's products: the AI image generator DALL-E 2. It's fair to say that rolling out the "new Bing" with its ChatGPT-powered AI chat functionality was a whopping success for Microsoft. Now, says Microsoft Corporate VP Yusuf Mehdi in a blog post (opens in new tab), the tech giant are "taking the chat experience to the next level by making the new Bing more visual." What that boils down to is utilizing the OpenAI's AI image generator, DALL-E 2, to form the Bing Image Creator. Essentially, instead of using DALL-E 2 to generate images on its own website, you can type prompts into the Bing search engine to receive AI generated imagery from there using the same engine. So how do you use the Bing Image Creator?