OpenAI is showing off Sora, its first text-to-video generative AI model.
Sora can turn a simple text prompt or image into a minute of high-res video.
It can also “extend” or insert frames into existing videos.
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However, OpenAI is still deciding whether to offer Sora as a product.
This isn’t the first text-to-video AI, but it may be the most impressive.
Generative videos fromGoogleandMetaare low-resolution, choppy, and excruciatingly nightmarish.
Early examples of Sora’s output are available on theOpenAI website.
Sora is also good at drawing realistic animals, and it can imitate the imperfections of old film.
Of course, Sora’s output is far from perfect.
However, Sora doesn’t require a long or complicated prompt.
Some of the examples provided by OpenAI are based on open-ended, single-sentence prompts.
It’s not all that different from ChatGPT’simage generation feature.
Unfortunately, OpenAI hasn’t shown off Sora’s image-to-video capabilities.
We also know very little about Sora’s training data.
OpenAI says that it used approximately 10,000 hours of “high-quality” video, but that’s all.
In any case, Sora needs to overcome several hurdles before it becomes a real product.
OpenAI is consulting “policymakers, educators, and artists” to better understand the public’s concerns.
