Sora is here

Our video generation model is rolling out at sora.com⁠(opens in a new window).

Earlier this year, we introduced Sora⁠, our model that can create realistic videos from text, and shared our initial research progress⁠ on world simulation. Sora serves as a foundation for AI that understands and simulates reality—an important step towards developing models that can interact with the physical world.

We developed a new version of Sora—Sora Turbo—that is significantly faster than the model we previewed in February. We’re releasing it today as a standalone product at Sora.com to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users.

We’re releasing a wide range of features which we first shared in our technical report⁠.

Users can generate videos up to 1080p resolution, up to 20 sec long, and in widescreen, vertical or square aspect ratios. You can bring your own assets to extend, remix, and blend, or generate entirely new content from text.

We’ve developed new interfaces to make it easier to prompt Sora with text, images, and videos. Our storyboard tool lets users precisely specify inputs for each frame.

We also have Featured and Recent feeds that are constantly updated with creations from the community.

Learn more about Sora’s features here⁠.

Sora is included as part of your Plus account at no additional cost. You can generate up to 50 videos at 480p resolution or fewer videos at 720p each month.

For those who want more Sora, the Pro plan includes 10x more usage, higher resolutions, and longer durations. We’re working on tailored pricing for different types of users, which we plan to make available early next year.¹

The version of Sora we are deploying has many limitations. It often generates unrealistic physics and struggles with complex actions over long durations. Although Sora Turbo is much faster than the February preview, we’re still working to make the technology affordable for everyone.

We’re introducing our video generation technology now to give society time to explore its possibilities and co-develop norms and safeguards that ensure it’s used responsibly as the field advances. 

All Sora-generated videos come with C2PA⁠(opens in a new window) metadata, which will identify a video as coming from Sora to provide transparency, and can be used to verify origin. While imperfect, we’ve added safeguards like visible watermarks by default, and built an internal search tool that uses technical attributes of generations² to help verify if content came from Sora.

Today, we’re blocking particularly damaging forms of abuse, such as child sexual abuse materials and sexual deepfakes³. Uploads of people will be limited at launch, but we intend to roll the feature out to more users as we refine our deepfake mitigations⁴. You can read more about our approach to safety and monitoring in the system card⁠ as well as details on our red teaming efforts⁵.

We hope this early version of Sora will enable people everywhere to explore new forms of creativity, tell their stories, and push the boundaries of what’s possible with video storytelling. We’re excited to see what the world will create with Sora.