Microsoft's new era of AI PCs — called Copilot+ PCs — was announced on May 20, and the company announced myriad new AI tools coming for them, including advanced AI image generation in Microsoft Paint.
MS Paint for some readers will conjure up memories of struggling mightily to create a passable image with your mouse in Windows, but suffice to say those days are long gone. This new experience, known as Cocreator, is slightly different than Paint's existing Cocreate experience, thanks to the use of a Copilot+ PC's on-device AI capabilities via a powerful NPU. While the old Cocreate could generate images via cloud servers and a token-based system, the new Cocreator tool will be able to generate local results quickly and without limits.
