OpenAI Turbocharges Sora AI Video Generation Tool And Makes It Public

OpenAI continues to roll out new products and pricing tiers as part of its 12 Days of OpenAI event, with the company releasing Sora, its video generation model, to general users. Prior to this release, Sora was available to a limited number of users as part of a research preview. The company says that this new model “serves as a foundation for AI that understands and simulates reality—an important step towards developing models that can interact with the physical world.”

Sora is a model that is able to “take text, image, and video inputs and generate a new video as an output.” Users will even have the ability to “enhance, remix, and blend their own assets.” Although the model is limited in the length and resolution of the video it’s capable of generating—it can only kick out videos up to 20 seconds long, while the resolution is ...