Microsoft Bing will get a free Sora-powered AI video generator

Microsoft Bing introduced at present that it’s introducing the Bing Video Creator to its app, which makes use of OpenAI’s Sora mannequin to let customers generate movies from textual content prompts.

OpenAI, which has a longstanding partnership with Microsoft, has locked down entry to Sora‘s video era for paying clients solely. Its integration in Microsoft Bing represents the primary time that it will likely be obtainable totally free.

At launch, Bing Video Creator isn’t but obtainable on desktop, and movies can take hours to generate, even when utilizing the “quick” mode, which is meant to take just some minutes.

All customers, as long as they’re logged right into a Microsoft account, can use the Bing app to create ten video clips for gratis. Then, customers should pay 100 Microsoft Rewards factors per video. These factors are awarded from looking out with Bing or making purchases on the Microsoft Retailer — for instance, 5 factors are awarded for every PC search utilizing Bing, with a cap at 150 factors per day.

Customers can queue as much as three five-second video generations at a time — as of now, there’s no option to change the size of the video. To this point, movies can solely be generated in a vertical 9:16 side ratio, maybe priming customers to share their AI creations on TikTok or Instagram. However quickly, horizontal 9:16 uploads will probably be obtainable as properly.