New text-to-video generator by OpenAI

A still from one of the new sample videos produced in Sora – it’s completely AI generated.

TikTok clips, animation and all things filmed – video is a ubiquitous medium with huge influence, but the knowledge and equipment needed to put ideas on a screen can be expensive and hard to come by.

Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), these barriers are being lowered.

Artificial intelligence (AI) industry leader OpenAI announced their newest project “Sora” today. The text-to-video model interprets a written prompt and generates actual footage.

For the user, it functions the same way as ChatGPT, a prompt-to-text model, and DALL·E, a prompt-to-image model, both OpenAI projects.

Currently, Sora can generate 60 seconds of video per prompt. The current version can generate a video using a still photo, extend and fill frames from real videos and create videos based on written…