Microsoft Paint Getting AI Image Generation with New 'Paint Cocreator'

Microsoft Paint is getting AI image generation powers through a new "Paint Cocreator" feature.
Paint Cocreator will let users create AI-generated images by entering text prompts.
The AI capabilities come from Microsoft's Bing Image Creator tool.
Paint with Cocreator will require the Windows 11 2022 or 2023 update.
For now, users can try Image Creator and paste results into regular Paint.

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Posted 9/26/2023, 5:00:00 PM