If Silicon Valley is a cutthroat place, the AI industry is currently its most vicious arena. Tech giants developing large language models and text-to-video generators are spending billions on data centers in order to stay one step ahead — and, they hope, to meet exploding demand from users. It seems that each company is only as successful as their last update, and tomorrow can always bring another breakthrough from a competitor, leaving them to play catch-up once again.
Just over a week ago, OpenAI rolled out Sora 2, the latest iteration of their video tool, complete with a TikTok -like social app where people can share the clips they create. The release wasn’t without issues (there were notable copyright and disinformation concerns ), though for the moment, it looks as if the c