Microsoft Bing introduced as we speak 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 prospects solely. Its integration in Microsoft Bing represents the primary time that it is going to be out there totally free.
At launch, Bing Video Creator will not be but out there on desktop, and movies can take hours to generate, even when utilizing the “fast” 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 for free of charge. Then, customers need to pay 100 Microsoft Rewards factors per video. These factors are awarded from looking 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 technique 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 out there as properly.
