OpenAI Sora
Cinematic text-to-video model creating highly detailed, realistic scenes from prompts.
What is OpenAI Sora?
Sora is OpenAI's advanced text-to-video generative AI model, capable of creating realistic and imaginative videos up to 1080p resolution and 20-60 seconds long from text prompts, images, or existing videos. It excels in producing complex scenes with consistent characters, motions, and environments, using a diffusion transformer architecture that processes visual data as spacetime patches for superior scaling and fidelity. Built on DALL·E and GPT technologies, Sora incorporates recaptioning for detailed prompt interpretation and solves temporal consistency issues, making it a foundational step toward real-world simulation and AGI.
Designed for creators, filmmakers, marketers, and casual users, Sora is accessible via ChatGPT Plus/Pro subscriptions in select regions, a dedicated app with social features, and APIs like Azure OpenAI. It enables remixing community content, casting personal characters, and automatic audio integration, fostering collaborative storytelling.
Its value lies in democratizing high-quality video production, reducing time and cost for prototyping ideas, and expanding creative tools beyond static images, though with built-in safety filters for harmful content.