You can now generate OpenAI Sora videos for free on iOS and Android but only if youre prepared to use Microsoft Bing

Date:
Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:26:51 +0000

Description:
You can now create Sora AI video using the Microsoft Bing app on Android and iOS.

FULL STORY ======================================================================You can now create Sora AI videos in the Bing app on mobile You get 10 credits, but can earn more by searching with Bing Videos are portrait and five seconds
long with more formats coming soon

Remember Bing, Microsofts attempt to take on the mighty Google in search? Ive got to admit, Id completely forgotten about it until Microsofts latest trick to make it relevant again caught me off guard: It has added Sora AI video creation to the Bing app on iOS and Android, for free!

Since you would normally need to be a ChatGPT Plus subscriber (which costs
$20 a month) to get access to Sora, thats a pretty sweet deal.

However, a look at the small print shows there are some restrictions. You get 10 fast creations credits to start with, and each time you create a video
with Bing Video Creator you gobble up a credit.

Using 'fast credits' your video will be created in just a few minutes. Once youre out of fast credits you switch to Standard speed. Standard means that
it will take Bing approximately several hours per video to generate anything.

Intriguingly, the 'fast credits' don't auto-renew each 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:
Using Bing Video Creator

To use Bing Video Creator you have to be using the Bing app on mobile, available on the App Store and Google Play Store.

Once it's running just tap the apps icon at the bottom right of the Bing screen to access all the apps it contains. Next, tap on Video Creator.

You can then type in a prompt for your video. Obviously, the more descriptive you are with your prompts the better the video will be, but to test it out I tried something very simple: A tiger prowling through the jungle and hit the Create button.

Just a couple of minutes later, I had my five second AI video. And it had
only used up one of my 'fast 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 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 Googles recently released Veo 3 AI video creator, you cant lip-sync voices in Sora videos, so you cant make videos of people saying things, although it surely cant be long before OpenAI add this feature to Sora. There also didnt seem to be any way of adding sound to the video at all in Bing.

We all know that Microsoft has had a long-standing 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 youd normally have to pay for via a ChatGPT.

The addition of Bing Video Creator is another welcome advantage of this deal, even if it's currently only available on mobile, however, Microsoft says that a desktop version is coming soon. Earning more credits

The most interesting part of the new tool is how you earn 'fast creation' credits. To gain 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, browsing using the Edge browser or gaming 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 in Bing is a clever tactic from Microsoft, and who knows, it might just bring Bing back into the spotlight again? You might also like Did ChatGPT ruin the em dash? Heres how to stop it from putting them everywhere 5 power-hungry appliances that use less energy than generating an image in ChatGPT Nothing shows how far ChatGPTs images
have come than two pictures generated with the same prompt, but created a
year apart



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