On Monday, OpenAI released Sora Turbo, a new version of its text-to-video generation model, making it available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers through a dedicated website. The model generates videos up to 20 seconds long at resolutions reaching 1080 p from a text or image prompt. It’s available today for ChatGPT Plus subscribers in the US and many parts of the world but is not yet available in Europe. But you can’t generate people yet—just in case.
At launch, uploads involving human subjects face restrictions while OpenAI refines its deepfake prevention systems. The platform also blocks content involving CSAM and sexual deepfakes. OpenAI says it maintains an active monitoring system and conducted testing to identify potential misuse scenarios before release.
Sora surprised AI experts with its relatively high-quality generations when OpenAI first previewed it in February, but in the interceding months, various video-synthesis models from competitors (such as Google’s Veo, Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha, Kling, Minimax, and a recent model called Hunyuan Video) have been taking some of the shine off of Sora’s release.
