Microsoft Paint’s OpenAI-powered ‘Cocreator’ image generator is here

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A picture of a pixelated cat generated by Paint Cocreator based on a user’s description.
Why draw the pixel cat in MS Paint when Cocreator can just make it for you? | Image: Microsoft
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Microsoft is officially launching its Cocreator image-generating AI feature within the Paint app for Windows 11. The new integrated text-to-image generator, powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 model, was previously available only to Windows Insiders. As Windows Central points out, the new Cocreator button in Microsoft Paint has now been widely released, giving all users the ability to enter a description of something they’re visualizing and get three generated images to choose between.

While the image generator is a new addition to Microsoft Paint, the company has already sprinkled the DALL-E 3 text-to-image-making capability into its other services. Microsoft’s Bing search chatbot was where users initially punched in image requests, but that’s…

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