DALL-E 3, the latest image generation model from OpenAI, was announced on September 20, 2023. While it is not yet available to the public, it is expected to be released in October 2023 for ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users via the API. However, ten days after its announcement, DALL-E 3 appears to have already been made available to the public through Microsoft’s Image Creator tool as part of its browser-based AI suite. On Saturday morning, digital art creator communities on Reddit and Twitter discovered that 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, AI art enthusiasts were able to experiment with OpenAI’s in-progress upgrades to DALL-E 2. YouTube influencer MattVidPro demonstrated it outperforming its predecessor as well as other image generators. 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. Late Friday, MattVidPro revealed that a public release of DALL-E 3 was imminent, noting that some users could get early access via Bing Image Creator by logging in and out of their Microsoft accounts, using more obscure web browsers, or clearing their cache. However, it should be noted that this is not an official release channel for DALL-E 3.
