Microsoft Bing introduced at the moment 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 technology for paying clients solely. Its integration in Microsoft Bing represents the primary time that it is going to be obtainable without spending a dime.
At launch, Bing Video Creator just isn’t but obtainable on desktop, and movies can take hours to generate, even when utilizing the “quick” mode, which is meant to take only a few minutes.
All customers, as long as they’re logged right into a Microsoft account, can use the Bing app to create ten video clips without charge. 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 date, movies can solely be generated in a vertical 9:16 facet ratio, maybe priming customers to share their AI creations on TikTok or Instagram. However quickly, horizontal 9:16 uploads will likely be obtainable as nicely.
