Ten days after it was announced, 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.

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, 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.

“This blows anything we’ve