OpenAI’s Sora announced for ChatGPT Pro, Plus subscribers

OpenAI, the company behind revolutionary A chatbot ChatGPT, teased its promising video generator called Sora a few months ago. However, the tool was available only to a few selected users at the time, and a public release was indefinitely in the future. That changes today, as a more powerful version of Sora is now finally available to the general public.

OpenAI has now announced Sora Turbo, a beefed-up version of the AI video generator that is now available to all ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscribers to try in the US. Here’s all you need to know about it and how to use it.

What is Sora?

Sora is an AI tool that uses generative AI to create videos without anything but text prompts. These prompts can be short or long and detailed, and videos can be as animated or as photorealistic as the prompts demands.

Sora can create videos in low quality (480p) or higher quality (1080p), but the latter requires much longer to generate. All the generation from prompts is still done on OpenAI’s servers though, which means Sora’s performance on higher-end machines should be the same as on lower-end machines.

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Currently, those who have access to the platform can create videos up to 20 seconds in length. Videos can be wide, vertical, or even square. You can also generate just one scene at a time. However, a built-in ‘Storyboard’ mode does allow you to create multiple scenes and chain them together.

Users can also use the ‘Remix feature’, which lets you take someone else’s Sora-generated video, and tweak the prompts to get the desired results. You can also check out videos generated by other users, complete with the prompts that went into making them.

How to use Sora

While it is a part of the ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscription, Sora is not yet available right on the ChatGPT app. Instead, users can use the tool on its dedicated URL – www.sora.com – where you can login with your ChatGPT account to get access. You can access this on any laptop or desktop.

OpenAI has still not made Sora open for free ChatGPT users just yet, but based on the company’s track record with ChatGPT’s more advanced models, a limited access mode for Sora may come to free users somewhere down the line, with a cap on either the number of videos you can generate, or other aspects like the length or quality of clips.