Microsoft unveils Bing Video Creator — we tested it against Google’s Veo 3 for pizza-making otters

It’s Monday and you needed some videos of cute otters making pizza, right?

Microsoft on Monday launched Bing Video Creator, a new generative AI tool that lets users create videos from text prompts.

The tool is powered by Sora, the video model that debuted in December from OpenAI, a key Microsoft partner.

This is the first time that users can access Sora for free. It’s available on mobile, and for vertical videos, at launch — availability on desktop and within Copilot Search in Bing are coming soon, according to Microsoft’s blog post.

Bing Video Creator lets users make ten 5-second videos, and then requires Microsoft Rewards points for additional creations.

The company’s blog post includes a video created from the prompt: “In a busy Italian pizza restaurant, a small otter works as a chef and wears a chef’s hat and an apron. He kneads the dough with his paws and is surrounded by other pizza ingredients.”

Here’s what Bing produced:

We gave the same prompt to Google’s new Veo 3 tool. Here’s what it came up with:

Personally, I’m taking a pizza from Google’s AI otter. I don’t love Microsoft’s otter putting their feet on the cutting board and the kneading technique looks a little rough.