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Sora

▲ Rising

OpenAI's text-to-video generative model, capable of creating short video clips from text descriptions.

Think of it like

The next frontier: if DALL-E paints pictures, Sora directs films.

Example

Prompt: "A cozy home library with warm lighting and vintage books" → generates a 60-second video.

How it actually works

Sora generates videos by predicting pixels in spacetime as a diffusion process. Research-grade as of late 2023; not yet widely available. Capabilities shown in research papers are impressive.

For product teams

Could disrupt video production and creative industries; monetization model TBD.

For engineers

Much harder than image generation; inference time and compute still high.

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