Sora

OpenAI’s recent “Sora” text-to-cinematic quality video debut is a wake-up call for Hollywood. It has opened eyes in the industry — many for the first time — to generative AI’s immense power. That power certainly threatens jobs, just as any new disruptive technology always does. But it also opens new creative possibilities, new jobs, and new business models. Sora — which is currently limited to producing one-minute micro-short films — underscores that generative AI is in its early innings.  So the key question for…

OpenAI left a lot of jaws on the floor last month when it shared the first footage made by Sora, its AI-powered text-to-video generator. The quality, while not perfect, was extraordinary, and left many wondering about the kind of transformational impact that such technology will have on the creative industries, including Hollywood. OpenAI has yet to release Sora to the public — that’s expected to happen later this year — but the company is happy to continue impressing everyone by dropping regular Sora-generated…

This month, OpenAI announced a new generative AI system named Sora, which produces short videos from text prompts. While Sora is not yet available to the public, the high quality of the sample outputs published so far has provoked both excited and concerned reactions. The sample videos published by OpenAI, which the company says were created directly by Sora without modification, show outputs from prompts like “photorealistic closeup video of two pirate ships battling each other as they sail…

Just over one week ago, ChatGPT creator OpenAI shocked the creative community when it announced its new “Sora” text-to-video generative AI model. Sora boasts photorealistic video and promises, ultimately, to deliver it in high-definition, cinematic quality, raising questions about what roles film schools will play in the future.  It’s just the latest generative AI tool that any user — no matter how versed they are in the arts — can use to unleash previously unimaginable creative possibilities. Its power is both…

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February 22, 2024 @ 5:12 PM Megaproducer Tyler Perry has put a planned $800 million expansion of his Atlanta, Georgia, studio on hold after seeing the capabilities of OpenAI’s new model Sora, which lets users create video images from text prompts. “Being told that it can do all of these things is one thing, but actually seeing the capabilities, it was mind-blowing,” he told The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday of Sora, which debuted on Feb. 15. Perry, whose new film, “Mea Culpa” premieres on Netflix on…

US firm OpenAI debuted a tool last week that can generate highly realistic snippets of video from just a few lines of text, leading content creators to wonder if they are the latest professionals about to be replaced by algorithms.Reactions to the tool, called Sora, have ranged from head-over-heels enthusiasm to alarm over the future direction of the industry. YouTuber Marques Brownlee called it "frightening" and "threatening" to see an AI doing his job. On the other hand, Caleb Ward, one half of AI filmmaking duo…

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.Google revives its open-source game with Gemma modelsGoogle announced today a set of new large language models, collectively called “Gemma,” and a return to the practice of releasing new research into the open-source ecosystem. The new models were developed by Google DeepMind and other teams within the company that already brought us the…

In case you haven’t seen them yet, four Fast Company tech stories worth your time:Of all the transfixing, unsettling moments in the short history of generative AI as we know it, few have topped OpenAI’s unveiling of Sora last week. The company’s first tool for producing videos based on written prompts, it’s still a research project, available only to a team assessing its potential dangers and selected creative professionals. The clips OpenAI and others have shared are all under a minute and silent. But what they prove…

Image Source : FILE OpenAI Following the launch of Sora- OpenAI's text-to-video model, ChatGPT's founding company witnessed significant growth in the artificial intelligence (AI)-related tokens over the weekend. As per the report of CoinGecko data, sector tokens like Ocean Protocol's OCEAN and Fetch have increased by an average of 7.7 per cent in the last 24 hours. AI's…