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Image: The Verge OpenAI’s highly-anticipated AI text-to-video generator, Sora, will become available to everyone today. In a video posted on Monday, Marques Brownlee confirmed its imminent release and detailed his experience using Sora over the past few weeks, calling the results “horrifying and inspiring at the same time.” OpenAI first revealed Sora in February but only made the tool available to a select number of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to start. Brownlee shows how Sora can convert your text prompt into a video, which you can then customize with additional text prompts as part of its “remix” tool. You can also use Sora to transform a photo into a video, as well as use its storyboard feature to “string together” several text prompts that Sora will attempt to blend into cohesive scenes. During his video, Brownlee points out that Sora currently struggles with generating realistic physics and often shows objects that disappear or pass through each other. He also found that Sora often rejects prompts that include public figures and copyrighted characters. Sora will launch today, and will most likely be announced during the 12 days of “ship-mas” video OpenAI plans on releasing at 1PM ET. Last Thursday, OpenAI announced a $200 / month ChatGPT Pro subscription and the full release of its o1 reasoning model.

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OpenAI's ChatGPT Christmas celebration is underway, with the AI company working its way through 12 days of announcements. Not all of them will be big reveals, though OpenAI has 12 daily livestreams scheduled for the event. With 10 left, we're in for two weeks of ChatGPT-related novelties, and I'm sure one of them will be the public release of Sora. Sora is OpenAI's incredible text-to-video genAI product, which was announced earlier this year. We saw Sora in action several months ago, and OpenAI said it would release it to the public sometime in 2024. The company didn't provide any release date information at the time, choosing to tread carefully in a year with crucial elections taking place worldwide. Sora, like other genAI programs, opens the door to potential abuse. While we eagerly await Sora's release, OpenAI is already working on a Sora 2 model that's even more advanced. And now, a presentation including Sora 2 video demos has apparently leaked. Continue reading... The post OpenAI’s Sora 2 AI video generator leaked, and it looks insane appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Best Apple Watch deals for December 2024 Best Apple deals for December 2024 Best deals: Tech, laptops, TVs, and more sales Cyber Week deals: $329 Apple Watch S10, $50 off Microsoft Office 2024, $374 PS5 Slim, Vitamix blenders, more

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