When OpenAI revealed its new generative video mannequin, Sora, final month, it invited a handful of filmmakers to strive it out. This week the corporate revealed the outcomes: seven surreal brief movies that depart little doubt that the way forward for generative video is coming quick.

The primary batch of fashions that might flip textual content into video appeared in late 2022, from firms together with Meta, Google, and video-tech startup Runway. It was a neat trick, however the outcomes had been grainy, glitchy, and just some seconds lengthy.

Quick-forward 18 months, and the most effective of Sora’s high-definition, photorealistic output is so gorgeous that some breathless observers are predicting the dying of Hollywood. However fears of misuse are rising too. Learn the complete story.

—Will Douglas Heaven

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Excited by studying extra about how filmmakers are already utilizing Sora? Try how three of them are already experimenting with it to create gorgeous movies—and discover out what they instructed us they imagine is coming subsequent.

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