The “girafflamingo” features in a parallel universe nature documentary. So far, OpenAI has previewed its AI video generator Sora with short clips that an amateur might produce. But now it has given creative professionals early access to the much-anticipated program. A handful of filmmakers, visual artists, and designers were given the opportunity to become the … Read more
OpenAI is meeting with Hollywood this week to pitch its new, and as yet unreleased, AI video generator Sora. OpenAI’s preview of Sora has created a massive buzz and raised questions about the future of video and the future of entertainment. And now Bloomberg reports that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is making overtures toward Hollywood … Read more
AI-generated Sora video example. An alien walks around New York City. OpenAI is continuing to tease its pending AI video generator Sora with yet more text-to-video clips that are capturing people’s imagination. In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI’s Chief Technical Officer Mira Murati said that Sora will be released “definitely this … Read more
The companies developing generative AI technologies are, typically, skirting around the rules regarding copyright: very few actually provide the public with concrete information on how they train their models. That trend has not changed with OpenAI’s Sora, the company’s forthcoming text-to-video generative AI that has shown the ability to make lifelike and realistic video. In … Read more
Video-based industries will immediately benefit; eventually, it could help solve bigger problemsOpenAI recently gave us all a peek into its latest generative AI offering Sora, and it was mindblowing. Sora can create videos a minute long with just a text prompt, but what makes the tech so impressive is its ability to understand and simulate … Read more
This AI-generated “product reviewer” looks more like a photographer. YouTuber Marques Brownlee was given the opportunity to use OpenAI’s brand new and as yet unreleased video generator Sora. Brownlee posted three video clips he created on Sora and also shared his thoughts on the technology that has been turning heads. I got a rare opportunity … Read more
Chinese multinational Alibaba, best known for its e-commerce operations, also heavily invests in technological development projects. Researchers in the company’s Institute for Intelligent Computing showed off their new AI video generator, EMO. EMO, or Emote Portrait Alive, is an “expressive audio-driven portrait-video generation framework” that turns a single still reference image and vocal audio into … Read more
Tyler Perry has halted an $800 million expansion of his studio after being shocked by the release of OpenAI’s video generator Sora and the threat it brings to jobs in the film industry. Over the past four years, producer Perry had been planning to expand his studio complex in Atlanta, Georgia, and add 12 new … Read more
Since OpenAI announced Sora last week, its upcoming AI video generator, there has been plenty of buzz as the world reacts to the novel technology. Sora has not been unleashed yet. Instead, it is available to “red teamers to assess critical areas for harms or risks” and a “number of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers … Read more
ChatGPT-parent OpenAI recently launched its new artificial intelligence (AI) model Sora that can generate“realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions” The Microsoft-backed AI startup’s CEO Sam Altman has used the new AI model to make an ‘interesting’ video and has shared it on social media platform X (earlier Twitter). The video was created by Altman … Read more