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Sora – OpenAI Text-to-Video Generation App

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Sora is relevant to AI safety discussions around capabilities proliferation, deepfake risks, misuse potential of generative video, and the pace of frontier model deployment by major labs.

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Summary

Sora is OpenAI's text-to-video generation model and app that converts text prompts or images into videos with high realism, including automatic sound. It supports features like character casting, remixing, and multiple visual styles including cinematic and photorealistic.

Key Points

  • Generates videos from text prompts or images in styles including cinematic, animated, photorealistic, and surreal.
  • Includes automatic audio generation: music, sound effects, and dialogue are added to videos.
  • Allows users to cast themselves or friends as characters, with user control over character usage.
  • Supports remixing of existing creations by swapping characters, changing scenes, or extending stories.
  • Available as a mobile app on iOS and Android, representing a major frontier capabilities milestone in multimodal AI.

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AI Capability Threshold ModelAnalysis72.0

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Overview
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Overview

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Sora 2

Turn your ideas into videos with hyperreal motion and sound.

Read the research

From words to worlds

Start with a prompt or upload an image to create videos with unprecedented realism in any style: cinematic, animated, photorealistic, or surreal.

Create a funny video|

a retro futuristic world|

You’re the star

Cast yourself and your friends in videos as characters. You control how or when your character is used.

Learn more about Characters

Remix everything

Take someone else’s creation and put your spin on it. Swap characters, change the vibe, add new scenes, or extend the story.

One wide shot of @daniel and @minnia working together in a drab cubicle office except Daniel only responds with meows|

Cue the sound

Music, sound effects, and dialogue are automatically included in videos to make every scene complete.

Play sound

Play sound

Play sound

Play sound

Play sound

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