OpenAI‘s AI Video Generator Sora Now Available to teh Public
OpenAI has made its groundbreaking text-to-video generator, Sora, accessible to everyone in the US. The tool, initially unveiled in February and limited to select creators and testers, allows users to generate AI-powered video clips from simple text prompts.
The public launch comes after a period of high demand, with OpenAI’s website temporarily halting new sign-ups due to overwhelming traffic.
sora’s capabilities are impressive. Users can input descriptions like “a wide, serene shot of a family of woolly mammoths in an open desert,” and Sora will generate a video depicting the scene.
OpenAI envisions Sora as a tool to empower creativity and storytelling.”We hope this early version of Sora will enable people everywhere to explore new forms of creativity, tell their stories, and push the boundaries of what’s possible with video storytelling,” the company stated in a blog post.
This move marks another step in OpenAI’s expansion beyond its popular chatbot ChatGPT. The Microsoft-backed company, valued at nearly $160 billion, is also developing a voice-cloning tool and has integrated its image generation tool, Dall-E, into ChatGPT.
Early reviews of Sora have been mixed. Tech reviewer Marques Brownlee,who had access to the tool before its public release,described the results as “horrifying and inspiring at the same time.” While impressed with Sora’s ability to render landscapes and stylistic effects, he noted struggles with realistic physics. Some filmmakers who previewed Sora also reported encountering visual defects.
despite these early challenges, Sora’s public availability opens up exciting possibilities for video creation, potentially democratizing the filmmaking process and allowing anyone to bring their visual ideas to life.
