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 printed the outcomes: seven surreal quick movies that depart little doubt that the way forward for generative video is coming quick.

The primary batch of fashions that would flip textual content into video appeared in late 2022, from corporations 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 one of the best 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 total story.

—Will Douglas Heaven

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Desirous about studying extra about how filmmakers are already utilizing Sora? Take a look at how three of them are already experimenting with it to create gorgeous movies—and discover out what they advised us they consider is coming subsequent.

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