After Dall-E and ChatGPT, OpenAI stunned the world once again with its new Sora AI about a month ago. Sora is a text-to-video generative AI app that can make incredible videos out of simple text prompts just like Dall-E generates images on the spot from a few lines of text. However, as impressive as the Sora demo might have been, it wasn't a public launch.
OpenAI only showed off the product, saying it would be available to the Red Teaming Network, which is 'a community of trusted and experienced experts that can help to inform risk assessment and mitigation efforts.' That public release is coming soon, with OpenAI's Mira Murati saying in an interview it will launch at some point this year. While an actual release date wasn't offered, the OpenAI exec seemed certain a 2024 public launch is in the cards for Sora. Murati explained Sora to The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern and the world with the help of new Sora-generated clips that are viewable in the video at the end of this post. We learned that Sora clips need a few minutes to generat