Sora can convert text or image prompts into shockingly realistic video.
OpenAI is finally launching its much-hyped Sora video generator. The release is part of OpenAI’s “12 Days of Shipmas,” during which the company has been releasing a string of new products including the $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro tier. Marques Brownlee was first to confirm today’s release, followed by a presentation from OpenAI later in the day.
Sora is included in ChatGPT paid memberships at sora.com, meaning you don’t have to pay extra for it, though there are limits. ChatGPT Plus subscribers can generate up to fifty twenty-second videos per month at a resolution of 480p, while Pro subscribers can generate unlimited videos at a slower speed, or five hundred at the fastest speed. Get ready for a lot of AI slop in your feeds.
OpenAI says Sora is available around the world except in the UK and European Union. CEO Sam Altman said in today’s announcement they don’t know when it will reach those regions.
“We don’t want our AIs to just be text,” Altman said. “Crucial to our AGI roadmap, AI will learn a lot about how we do things in the world.”
As part of the announcement, OpenAI showed off an explore page where “people can come together” and share videos they’ve created with Sora, including the prompts they used to generate them.
Sora was first announced back in February, and OpenAI has slowly been rolling out the model with preview testers. Former CTO Mira Murati famously was the subject of ridicule online after she told the Wall Street Journal that she was unsure whether Sora was trained on YouTube videos, which would be a violation of Google’s terms of service.
