Microsoft’s AI-powered design instrument is now broadly obtainable in Edge

Microsoft Designer, the corporate’s free AI-powered design instrument, is now broadly obtainable to Edge customers within the US. This implies you’ll be able to entry Designer from Edge’s sidebar, permitting you to generate designs with out opening up a separate tab or program.

After launching Designer final 12 months, Microsoft introduced in April that it could construct the instrument into Edge. The combination enables you to create quite a lot of designs, equivalent to social media posts, fliers, greeting playing cards, invites, and extra — all from Edge’s sidebar.

When you enter a immediate, Designer’s AI will pull up a grid of steered designs, full with textual content and a photograph. You too can tweak any of those designs to your liking, whether or not you need to swap out a photograph, add an illustration, or change the font. The instrument’s DALL-E-powered text-to-image generator additionally enables you to create footage that you would be able to add to your design.

Whereas all these options are already obtainable inside Microsoft’s standalone Designer app on the internet, there’s a profit to having all these instruments bundled in Edge. The combination ought to make it simpler to convey designs to an e mail, Fb, or Instagram with out having to flip by means of a bunch of home windows. It may additionally assist it compete with different free design instruments, like Canva, which have already begun so as to add AI-powered options.

Microsoft Designer remains to be in preview, and it’s not clear when the corporate plans to launch it totally. You may entry the instrument by updating Edge after which choosing the “plus” icon within the column on the far proper aspect of your display screen. From right here, toggle on “Designer (Preview)” for it to look in your sidebar.

Other than the Designer’s integration into Edge, Microsoft additionally rolled out just a few updates to Bing Chat within the browser. Now, you’ll be able to ask the chatbot to carry out extra actions, like organizing tabs associated to a selected subject or acquiring a password from a special browser.