Bing DALL-E 3 Went Live On The Weekend But It Was Painfully Slow

Microsoft launched DALL-E 3 in Bing Chat late on Friday night and went it went live, it just stalled. It took a really long time for Bing Chat to create images using DALL-E 3 after it went live. Microsoft\'s Mikhail Parakhin announced the launch on X on Friday afternoon, saying, "Rolling out DALL-E 3 in Bing broadly - should be at a 100% by 8PM PST." He shared that image above.

Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft wrote on X on Sunday, "Folks, we know DALL-E 3.0 generation right now is taking longer than normal. We expected some strong interest, but we didn\'t expect THAT much, especially given it\'s a weekend. Bringing more GPUs in, will be better soon."

I tried it on Monday late morning and it took several minutes for Bing chat to reply "Your image is taking a while to generate. Check your image creation progress at Image Creator." Here is that screenshot:

After waiting over 15 minutes, I decided to give up.

Mikhail Parakhin said on on Sunday it should be fixed within hours, but I tried it Monday and it was still painfully slow.

Hours

— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) October 1, 2023

He then updated us this morning that the team is working on it, he said, "Yes, sorry, increased demand for DALL-E 3 strains the system. We are working on it."

Yes, sorry, increased demand for DALL-E 3 strains the system. We are working on it.

— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) October 3, 2023

However, at 5:30 am ET when I tested it, it was much faster than my tests on Monday.

Anyway, here is a bit more technical details on this:

Measured in thousands of H100-equivalent

— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) October 1, 2023

Correct

— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) October 3, 2023

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