Microsoft Bing introduced Monday 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 long-standing partnership with Microsoft, has locked down entry to Sora‘s video technology for paying prospects solely. Its integration in Microsoft Bing represents the primary time that it is going to be obtainable free of charge.
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 just some minutes.
All customers, as long as they’re logged right into a Microsoft account, can use the Bing app to create 10 video clips for gratis. 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 5-second video generations at a time — as of now, there’s no solution to change the size of the video. Up to now, 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 effectively.
