What a Week!

To give you a sense of just how fast AI is evolving, here's a small list of announcements from this past week. Remember, today you are experiencing the slowest rate of technological change you’ll ever experience for the rest of your life. Continue Reading →

Sora is Here

OpenAI has officially launched Sora, its text-to-video AI model, as part of its "12 Days of OpenAI" event. Sora enables users to generate videos from text prompts, animate images, and remix existing videos. ChatGPT Plus subscribers ($20/month) can create up to 50 priority videos at 720p, while ChatGPT Pro subscribers ($200/month) have access to unlimited video generations at 1080p. Do not be surprised if you encounter the "Sora account creation is temporarily unavailable" error message. Demand is understandably high. Continue Reading →
Toys "R" Us x OpenAI x Sora
I forgot to mention a super fun moment from Cannes last week. Zombie brand Toys"R"Us and OpenAI flexed a bit as they showed the "first-ever brand film" (aka commercial) using Sora, OpenAI's new (yet unreleased) text-to-video tool. Continue Reading →

LLMusical Chairs

The game of LLMusical chairs continues. Emad Mostaque, CEO of Stability AI (makers of the text-to-image app Stable Diffusion), has stepped down. He tweeted: "The concentration of power in AI is bad for us all. I decided to step down to fix this at Stability & elsewhere." Continue Reading →
OpenAI's Sora, an almost unbelievable text-to-video generator, has been making waves since it was announced. In February, Sora was made available to a select group of "red teamers" for security and stability testing, as well as to a limited number of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers for feedback on its video generation capabilities. Continue Reading →
OpenAI has launched Sora, a text-to-video AI model capable of generating up to one-minute videos from text prompts. Designed to simulate the physical world in motion, Sora will service real-world applications that require dynamic visual content. Continue Reading →