- You can now create Sora AI videos in the Bing app on mobile
- You get 10 points but can earn more by searching with bing
- Videos are portrait and five seconds long with multiple formats that are coming soon
Do you remember Bing, Microsoft’s attempt to take on the mighty Google in search? I have to admit, I had completely forgotten it until Microsoft’s latest trick to make it relevant again caught me away: It has added Sora AI video creation to the Bing app on iOS and Android, free!
Since you should usually be a chatgpt plus subscriber (which costs $ 20 a month) to access Sora, it’s a pretty sweet deal.
However, a look at the small prints shows that there are some limitations. You get 10 ‘quick creations’ credits to begin with, and every time you create a video with the Bing Video Commerce, you go to a credit.
Using ‘Fast Credits’ is created your video in just minutes. When you are out of quick credits, switch to standard speed. Standard means it will take bing “about more hours per video” to generate something.
Exciting the ‘fast credits’ are not automatically renewed every month, but instead you can earn more of them by searching using the bing search engine.
Microsoft has produced a video to show you how Bing Video Creator works:
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Using the Bing Video Cabinet
To use the bing video creator, use the Bing app on Mobile, Available in the App Store and Google Play Store.
When running, just tap the apps icon at the bottom right of the bing screen to access all the apps it contains. Then tap the video creator.
You can then enter a prompt to your video. Obviously, the more descriptive you are with your requests, the better the video will be, but to test it I tried something very simple: “A tiger fighting through the jungle” and pressing the Create button.
Just a few minutes later I had my five -second AI video. And it had only used one of my ‘quick creations’ credits.
I could share my video using all the usual methods on my iPhone, and the video file it produced was only 7MB in size. Videos created in the Bing Video Creator are five seconds long and can be created in 9:16 -format with 16: 9 format “Coming Soon”.
Here it is:
Unlike Google’s recently released VEO 3 AI video creators, you can’t lip-synchronized voices in Sora videos, so you can’t make videos of people saying things, though it certainly can’t be long before Openai adds this feature to Sora. Nor did there seem to be any way to add audio to the video at all in Bing.
We all know that Microsoft has had a long-lasting alliance with Openai, which has meant that Copilot is powered by the Chatgpt search engine. This has sometimes meant that you can access Premium features that you usually have to pay for via a chatgpt.
The addition of the Bing Video Cabinet is another welcome benefit of this deal, although it is currently only available on mobile, but Microsoft says a desktop version will come soon.
Earns more credits
The most interesting part of the new tool is how to earn ‘Fast Creation’ credits. To get more you can redeem 100 Microsoft Rewards points for a single credit. You can earn these reward points by searching using bing on desktop or mobile, browse using the edge browser or games using the Xbox console, provided you are logged in with your Microsoft account.
For example, you can earn five points by searching just once using Bing on either mobile or PC Desktop. So the more you search with bing, the more Sora videos you can create.
Offering Sora Video Credits for Searching Bing is a smart tactic from Microsoft, and who knows it might just bring Bing back into the limelight again?
