OpenAI is now more than just an AI chatbot and an image creator. The company behind ChatGPT has officially unveiled its Sora video generator.
Video With Just a Text Prompt
Originally announced earlier this year, Sora is now available to anyone with a ChatGPT subscription. It’s not available through ChatGPT but through the dedicated Sora site. To create a video, just provide a quick description of what you want to see, similar to AI image creation tools. You can also add in images and other videos to help the process. There is also a storyboard tool that lets you precisely specify what is shown in each frame.
The tools lets you create video up to 1080p resolution and up to 20 seconds long. You can also choose a widescreen, vertical, or square aspect ratio. The site’s Featured and Recent feeds will show what others are creating.
Anyone with a $20 per month Plus subscription can generate up to 50 videos at 480p resolution, or fewer videos at 720p, per month.
For even more use of Sora, you’ll need to jump on the $200 per month Pro plan unveiled last week. Those subscribers can access 10 times more use, higher resolutions, and longer durations of videos.
OpenAI did say that the current version of Sora has a number of limitations like unrealistic physics and will struggle with complex actions over long durations.
All videos from Sora will be tagged with specific metadata that will identify the video as coming from the service. Watermarks are also visible by default. OpenAI is also blocking the creation of sexual deepfakes and child sexual abuse materials. Uploads of people will also be limited at launch.
A New Step in AI?
OpenAI’s ChatGPT was the pioneer in AI-powered chatbot technology and has spawned a host of other similar options from Google, Microsoft, and many others. ChatGPT is also making some types of websites obsolete.
While Sora is obviously in its very early stages, it does seem that the video generator will be another way for OpenAI to continue to lead the field. Just like with ChatGPT, Sora should easily get better with new technology.
