Bing lets you use OpenAI’s Sora video generator for free

The Bing Video Creator is rolling retired present to Bing mobile app users.

Microsoft has added a caller AI video generator to its Bing mobile app that’s built connected OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video model. The Bing Video Creator announced connected Monday provides a escaped mode to make abbreviated clips with Sora, which is usually locked down ChatGPT subscriptions starting astatine $20 per period for Plus users.

“Bing Video Creator represents our efforts to democratize the powerfulness of AI video generation,” Microsoft said successful its announcement. “We judge creativity should beryllium effortless and accessible to assistance you fulfill your answer-seeking process. We’re excited to empower anyone to crook their words into wonderment done an AI-generated video.”

The Video Creator is present rolling retired globally (excluding China and Russia) to the Bing Search apps for Android and iPhone, and Microsoft says desktop and Copilot Search enactment are besides “coming soon.” The video generator tin beryllium accessed via the paper astatine the bottommost close country of the Bing app, oregon by adding a statement of the clip you privation to marque straight to the Bing hunt bar.

Microsoft says that users tin queue up to 3 video generations astatine a clip and volition person a notification erstwhile they’re ready. You tin take betwixt a “Standard” procreation speed, which is escaped for each users, oregon a “Fast” enactment that works “in seconds,” according to Microsoft. 10 Fast generations are provided for free, aft which users volition request to usage the Standard velocity oregon redeem 100 Microsoft Rewards points for each Fast generation.

Videos are 5 seconds long, successful a 9:16 vertical format, and enactment for 16:9 format video instauration volition beryllium added astatine a aboriginal date. Videos volition beryllium stored connected the Bing app for up to 90 days and tin beryllium downloaded oregon shared with different platforms.

The illustration videos that Microsoft has released are a acold outcry from the prime showcased by different AI models similar Google’s Veo 3. The movements successful the otter cook and sweeping hamster demos amusement unnatural clipping, for example, and the characters themselves look a small cartoony astatine times. Still, judging by our clip experimenting with Sora aft it launched successful December 2024, these are a amended practice of what the video exemplary is susceptible of than the polished (and presumably cherry-picked) clips that OpenAI released erstwhile Sora was being teased.