Day 3 of 12 Days of OpenAI will be hard to top
The third day of OpenAI’s 12 Days of OpenAI went way bigger than the OpenAI o1 model of day one or the enterprise-focused day two. The AI company announced the general release of the long-awaited Sora AI video generator.
First teased nearly a year ago, there’s a lot to unpack from the news, so here are five of the most important bits about Sora you need to know.How to make videos with Sora
Sora is now accessible via its website to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers in the U.S. and many other countries. The AI video maker employs an upgraded version of the model showcased in February called Sora Turbo – this new model produces better videos more quickly than the earlier iteration.
Beyond basic text-to-video capabilities, Sora Turbo adds some creative flexibility. You can submit a text prompt to make a video from scratch, as well as animate a still image, or remix an existing video based on a new text prompt.
Don’t expect to make full-length feature films right away, though. Sora runs on a credit system similar to ChatGPT and DALL-E. ChatGPT Plus subscribers get 1,000 monthly credits, which equals 50 videos at 720p resolution of five seconds each that will be prioritized for creation.
If you’re willing to pay $200 a month for the new ChatGPT Pro plan, you can get longer, higher quality videos of up to 20 seconds at 1080p and ten times as many priority videos as with Plus. You can also have up to five videos processing simultaneously. If you use up all 500 priority slots, you’ll still get unlimited video generations below the priority level, but none of the videos will have the OpenAI watermark. That’s not the case on the Plus plan, though. Even if you’re not making a video, you can check out the Sora Explore page and see what others are making.
Once you’re logged into Sora, you can follow the steps below to make a video in Sora, and check out our hands-on with making a video here.
