Microsoft has been pumping a concerted amount of development into its Windows 11 in-box apps with non more deserving than the Paint app getting the AI-powered image generating Cocreator assistant.
Microsoft Paint has graduated from the basic past/cut/copy image editor to a full blown graphics editor with the addition of new UI design, layers, and refined editing tools over the past few months. Windows Paint user can now make use of a powerful image generating platform called Cocreator that is now being bundled into the app for all Windows 11 users.
The folks over at Windows Central first reported that the previously Insider tested Cocreator button is finding its way to more users in wider release as of today. Paints new Cocreator platform is powered by Microsoft’s OpenAI partners DALL-E 3 model and enable some of the most powerful text-to-image generated creations on the internet.
Microsoft first began implementing DALL-E 3 models in its Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat) back in April and the company seems poised to bring it to more users via Windows 11.
In practice, Windows 11 Paint users will now be able to enter a text-based description of concepts, ideas, brainstorms or vague suggestions to then have AI generating tool produce up to the visualized options paired with a selection of styles that include charcoal, ink sketch, watercolor, oil painting, digital art, photorealistic, anime, and pixel art to further refine the images.
Anecdotally testing the new Cocreator generator, it appears users are given 50 tokens that can be used to create images. I’m not sure what happens after the 50 are used up but it appears that each generated image use a single token. There is also a clear preview label attached to the feature.
Microsoft has recently said it is looking to bring is chat-bot Copilot platform to Windows 10 which could also tie into older that version of Paint receiving a similar AI-led glam up as well in the future.
