Open AI Releases Sora, the Text to Video Platform

Open AI says that Sora serves as a foundation for AI that understands and simulates reality—an important step towards developing models that can interact with the physical world. The release is the hero launch in OpenAI’s “shipmas” plan, unveiling new features, products, and demonstrations over 12 consecutive days starting December 5th.

The company also developed a new version of Sora—Sora Turbo— that is significantly faster than the model previewed in February. They have released it today as a standalone product at Sora.com to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users.

Users can generate videos up to 1080p resolution, up to 20 sec long, and in widescreen, vertical or square aspect ratios. You can bring your own assets to extend, remix, and blend, or generate entirely new content from text.

Sora has Featured and Recent feeds that are constantly updated with creations from the community.

Source: SORA

Open AI says the version of Sora they are deploying has many limitations. It often generates unrealistic physics and struggles with complex actions over long durations. Although Sora Turbo is much faster than the February preview, they’re still working to make the technology affordable for everyone.

They are introducing video generation technology now to give society time to explore its possibilities and co-develop norms and safeguards that ensure it’s used responsibly as the field advances.

All Sora-generated videos come with C2PA ⁠(opens in a new window) metadata, which will identify a video as coming from Sora to provide transparency, and can be used to verify origin.

The company is blocking damaging forms of abuse, such as child sexual abuse materials and sexual deepfakes. Uploads of people will be limited at launch, but they intend to roll the feature out to more users as they refine deepfake mitigations.