What is Sora?
Sora is a text-to-video generation model developed by OpenAI.
The company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E released the tool in December 2024 as a reaction to other rivals in the artificial intelligence (AI) field like Google and Meta.
Sora got its name after the Japanese word for sky to signify its "limitless potential", according to the developers.
What can Sora do?
The AI model is designed to generate videos up to a minute long based on the user's prompt.
Available demos show complex scenes with multiple characters and camera in motion.
However, OpenAI has also acknowledged some of Sora's limitations, such as struggling to simulate complex physics and understand causality.
In line with the company's policies, the AI model is set to refuse prompts for sexual, violent and h