What Is OpenAI Sora?

Everything from high-end drone footage to multi-million dollar movie productions.

Complete with AI-generated actors, special effects,the works.

Sora AI video frame of a Dalmation in a window

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Sora is of course not the first technology to do this.

Such as the quite-disturbingAI Will Smith eating spaghetti.

Nothing will be untouched by this.

AI-generated iamge of a young man at his 20s is sitting on a piece of cloud in the sky, reading a book.

This might be the true start of thesynthetic movie industry.

How Does Sora Work?

First, because OpenAI is ironically not open about the inner workings of their technology.

AI-generated imagte of a drone view of waves crashing against the rugged cliffs along Big Sur’s garay point beach.

While both documents are well worth reading, we can extract the most important facts here.

Sora uses the same broadtransformerapproach that powers GPT along with the diffusion method that AI image generators use.

By comparing that to the ground truth, the model learns the “language” of video.

Which is why the examples from the Sora website look so authentic.

Also, somewhat amusingly, Sora seems to confuse left with right from time to time.

When Will You Get Sora?

I think we’re talking months rather than years, but don’t expect it next week.