OpenAI’s New Sora App Turns You and Friends into AI-Generated Movie Stars
What is Sora? From Text Prompts to Hyperreal Videos Sora began as an OpenAI research model (announced Feb. 2024) that could turn text or static images into short, realistic video clips. It was first offered to ChatGPT users and researchers to showcase “hyperreal” video generation openai.com sciencefriday.com. The original Sora showed surprisingly high fidelity – so much so that Science Friday’s AI reporter noted it was “nearly impossible to distinguish” the AI clips from real footage sciencefriday.com. However, early Sora had limitations (struggling with physics and longer action scenes). The new Sora 2 model (just announced alongside the app) greatly