AI video generation has leveled up over the last month with OpenAI’s Sora 2 and Google’s Veo 3.1 delivering cinematic fidelity, in-depth narrative control, synchronized audio and massively improved physical realism. Both have significantly upped the ante for creative storytelling. After testing both separately with a series of wild and imaginative prompts, I had to see how the two most popular AI video generators stacked up against each other. Here’s what happened when I tried some of the craziest ideas I could think of in a faceoff between Sora 2 and Veo 3.1 in a series of the same seven story prompts.

1. The day gravity quit

Prompt: "A sleepy small town on a sunny morning — mailboxes, cars, and coffee mugs start floating upward as gravity gradually turns off. People calmly sip coffee a

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