OpenAI Quietly Ships DALL-E 3 AI Image Generator Upgrade In Bing

Ten days after it was announced, DALL-E 3 appears to have already been made available to the public through Microsoft’s Bing Creator AI suite.

Early Saturday morning, digital art creator communities on Reddit and Twitter discovered significantly improved images and text interpretation capabilities were available through Bing. The upgrade, widely believed to be DALL-E 3, is still not available via the OpenAI website.

DALL-E 3 is a much-anticipated upgrade to the immensely popular DALL-E 2 AI image generator from OpenAI. While ChatGPT, OpenAI’s generative AI chatbot and text-based tool, enjoys a dominant position in its space, DALL-E faces stiff competition from tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. A head-to-head comparison using DALL-E 2 revealed some ways it fell short.

In July, some AI art enthusiasts were able to experiment with OpenAI’s in-progress upgrades to DALL-E 2. YouTube influencer MattVidPro show it outperforming previous image generators.

“This blows anything we’ve seen before out of the water, it’s insane,” he said at the time. “Midjourney cannot compete at this level—I don’t even think Midjourney version six would be able to compete at this level.”

That technology preview lacked the protections put in place by major AI developers to prevent malicious or deceptive uses, allowing MatVidPro to demonstrate a fully uncensored implementation of DALL-E.

When DALL-E 3 was officially announced on Sept. 20, its improved capabilities were clear—with guardrails meanwhile put in place for the public.

Editor’s note: this is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.