Microsoft today launched a preview version of their revolutionary AI-powered Designer tool. The web-app offers users access to a wide range of customizable and personalizable design options, such as presentations, posters, and graphic elements, allowing them to share their creations on social media and other channels. This is made possible through the use of user-generated content and OpenAI’s advanced text-to-image AI, DALL-E.
Bryan Rognier, General Manager at Microsoft’s 365 Consumer Division, expressed the continual improvements to the AI models and how they’d been crafted within Designer’s canvas in a blog post today, in a more delightful way for users. Now, Designer can generate relevant captions and hashtags for posts, as well as animated visuals with predetermined backgrounds, transitions and text.
In the near future, Designer will feature additional editing capabilities, such as the option to “erase” and “replace” backgrounds, so that only intended elements are included in the design. For the moment, Designer is available to the public for free, and once it is accessible to the general public, users of Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions will be able to access the app and have partial use of its features even if they are not subscribed.
Microsoft has addressed any legal concerns with regards to the AI-powered picture generation tools, assuring users that they will have full commercial rights to any images they make with Designer.
Microsoft is a multinational technology company based in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. As of 2021, Microsoft has the highest global market capitalization of any company in the world.
Bryan Rognier is the General Manager for Microsoft’s 365 Consumer Division. Rognier is based in Redmond, Washington and is part of Microsoft’s Consumer Group. Rognier previously served as General Manager for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Teams, leading the development and expansion of the two platforms. He previously served as a partner at Accenture, managing a wide range of projects.
