> DALL-E lost because they let MJ eat their lunch

I wonder why nobody is talking about Bing Image Creator

https://www.bing.com/images/create

which uses some much more advanced version of Dall-E 2 in the background (so Dall-E 2.5? 3?), while being completely free to use. It can produce some pretty mind blowing results with quite simple prompts, although apparently not as impressive as Midjourney V5. A few examples:

hyperrealistic

https://www.bing.com/images/create/hyperrealistic/644fa0c48f...

an allegory for femininity

https://www.bing.com/images/create/an-allegory-for-femininit...

portrait of a strange woman, hyperrealistic

https://www.bing.com/images/create/portrait-of-a-strange-wom...

allegory of logic, portrait

https://www.bing.com/images/create/allegory-of-logic2c-portr...

her strange bedfellow

https://www.bing.com/images/create/her-strange-bedfellow/644...

Mrs fox

https://www.bing.com/images/create/mrs-fox/6446e85a32134e649...

inside view

https://www.bing.com/images/create/inside-view/6446f1dc573f4...

in the midst of it all

https://www.bing.com/images/create/in-the-midst-of-it-all/64...

strange gal

https://www.bing.com/images/create/strange-gal/6446e2a2ea7a4...

sighting of a strange entity in an abandoned library

https://www.bing.com/images/create/sighting-of-a-strange-ent...

sleeping marble woman next to a wall of strange pictures inside an abandoned museum, close-up

https://www.bing.com/images/create/sleeping-marble-woman-nex...

sculpture of a woman posing next to a wall of strange pictures, close-up

https://www.bing.com/images/create/sculpture-of-a-woman-posi...

Easter

https://www.bing.com/images/create/easter/643ae4968aff432684...

Christmas on board a spaceship, DSLR photograph

https://www.bing.com/images/create/christmas-on-board-a-spac...

an angel, dancing to heavy metal

https://www.bing.com/images/create/an-angel2c-dancing-to-hea...

Saturday afternoon in the streets of a buzzing cyberpunk city, photo-realistic, DSLR

https://www.bing.com/images/create/saturday-afternoon-in-the...

The Dogfather

https://www.bing.com/images/create/the-dogfather/6441d18950b...

the unlikely guest

https://www.bing.com/images/create/the-unlikely-guest/644446...

Strange pictures in an abandoned museum

https://www.bing.com/images/create/strange-pictures-in-an-ab...

strange woman in an abandoned museum, close-up

https://www.bing.com/images/create/strange-woman-in-an-aband...

strange woman in an abandoned museum, strange pictures in the background

https://www.bing.com/images/create/strange-woman-in-an-aband...

a wall of strange pictures in an abandoned museum in Atlantis, close-up

https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-wall-of-strange-picture...

female sculpture in an abandoned museum in Atlantis, close-up

https://www.bing.com/images/create/female-sculpture-in-an-ab...

the unlikely guest

https://www.bing.com/images/create/the-unlikely-guest/644490...

an unlikely guest of the secret society in the lost city in a country without name, close-up

https://www.bing.com/images/create/an-unlikely-guest-of-the-...

I think the quality of most of these pictures is far beyond what is achievable with Dall-E 2. One issue that still exists (though to a lesser extent) is the fact that faces have to cover a fairly large area of the image. Smaller faces look strange, e.g. here:

photograph of the unlikely guests

https://www.bing.com/images/create/photograph-of-the-unlikel...

It is as if the model creates a good draft in low resolution, and another model scales it up, but the latter model doesn't know what a face is? (I have no idea how diffusion models actually work.)