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Microsoft Bing announced today that it is introducing the Bing Video Creator<\/a> to its app, which uses OpenAI\u2019s Sora model to let users generate videos from text prompts.<\/p>\n OpenAI, which has a longstanding partnership<\/a> with Microsoft, has locked down access to Sora<\/a>\u2018s video generation for paying customers only. Its integration in Microsoft Bing represents the first time that it will be available for free.<\/p>\n At launch, Bing Video Creator is not yet available on desktop, and videos can take hours to generate, even when using the \u201cfast\u201d mode, which is supposed to take just a few minutes. <\/p>\n All users, so long as they are logged into a Microsoft account, can use the Bing app to create ten video clips at no cost. Then, users have to pay 100 Microsoft Rewards<\/a> points per video. These points are awarded from searching with Bing or making purchases at the Microsoft Store \u2014 for example, 5 points are awarded for each PC search using Bing, with a cap at 150 points per day.<\/p>\n Users can queue up to three five-second video generations at a time \u2014 as of now, there\u2019s no way to change the length of the video. So far, videos can only be generated in a vertical 9:16 aspect ratio, perhaps priming users to share their AI creations on TikTok or Instagram. But soon, horizontal 9:16 uploads will be available as well. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n