Microsoft has rolled out its AI image generator for Edge to everyone

Microsoft is making the AI ​​image creator DALL-E “available on the desktop to Edge users worldwide.” The company announced it was coming last month when it integrated image generation technology into its Bing chat bot, but the move could make it available to a much wider audience.

When it is brought up – me and two more edge It doesn’t look like employees using Edge can access it yet – the Image Creator will live in the Edge sidebar. It should be very simple to use; You type in what you want to see, and Bing will generate as many images as you request. Then, you can download the ones you like and use them however you like.

in Blog post on ThursdayMicrosoft offers the feature as a way to create “very specific” visuals when working on social media posts or slideshows and documents. While this was possible in a variety of ways before – you could use DALL-E from OpenAI, Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator siteBing Chat’s built-in image generator, or one of the many other image generators — putting it in Edge’s sidebar makes it much easier to ask the AI ​​to make some images for you while you’re doing something else on the web.

According to Microsoft, you’ll have to manually add it to the sidebar before you can use it, at least for now. To do this, open the sidebar, click the “+” button, and then toggle the switch next to Image Creator.

Microsoft is “experimenting with limits based on usage patterns and continuing to learn to help us improve the customer experience,” according to a statement from Microsoft. the edge from Katie Usher, Senior Director of Communications. “Today most users are not faced with a limit on the number of images they can create per day.”

The company is also adding other features to Edge, like the Drop tool that lets you send files and other content to yourself, and creating a personal notebook that syncs across devices. Microsoft too add a tool called “Browser Essentials”, It’s basically a button you can click to tell Edge what a great job it does of being efficient and scanning for malware (although this feature is currently only available in early access versions).

Update April 7th 6:01PM ET: Added statement from Microsoft about image creation limitations.