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It’s only been a few weeks since OpenAI took down its site Back up ramp (sorry, AI video) app, SoraThe company is already preparing for the next major wave of updates. In a new post, OpenAI President Bill Peebles explained to Sora What’s coming soon to AI-video, including new creation tools, enhanced social features, and long-awaited Android support.
Peebles says Sora is about to get new creation tools in the form of avatars, which are now expanding beyond humans. Cameo is Sora’s main feature that lets you use other people’s photos to create almost any type of AI-powered video. Soon, you’ll be able to show off your dog, guinea pig, favorite stuffed toy, or characters created from existing Sora videos. The app’s creation interface will also highlight trending cameos in real-time, likely drawing on existing popular social media features such as the For You page or the Explore page on Instagram.
“Anything could be a cameo for the character,” according to an announcement video posted by Bill Peebles on X.
OpenAI also adds basic video editing tools, starting with the ability to stitch clips together directly in the app. More advanced editing features are on the way, Peebles says, pointing to a broader creative suite that aims to move Sora beyond short, one-off generations to an app that can be used by professional creators.
On the social side, the team is experimenting with new ways to use Sora with friends and communities, rather than just a global feed. This could mean creating channels for your university, workplace, hobbies, or sports teams, bringing a more local flair to what has until now been a mostly chaotic public stream of AI videos.
In his post on X, Peebles also confirmed that an Android version of Sora is coming soon.
These changes follow Sora’s first major update earlier this month, which introduced longer video borders and a storyboard feature. The company announced that free Sora users can create videos up to 15 seconds long on the iPhone app and web (which is the only way Android users can use Sora at the moment). Pro users also get an additional 10 seconds when they create for the web, for a total of 25 seconds. The announcement came one day after Google It has upgraded the popular AI video model,Veo 3, to handle longer video generations.
Since your Sora account is linked to your ChatGPT account, if you are paying for ChatGPT Pro, you are a paying Sora user. (For more information, see all Payment plans.)
Storyboard, available only to professional web users, allows content creators to plan web videos before creating them. Storyboarding has long been part of the professional filmmaking process and is sometimes included in more professional programs. Google Flow AI movie making softwareFor example, comics are allowed. But this is an interesting and somewhat unexpected addition for Sora.
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Sora has only been around for a short time, but the vibe of the app is focused on shorter, funny videos, reflecting OpenAI’s claim that the app is designed to help people connect with their friends. Longer, better-planned professional videos aren’t very popular, but these upcoming updates will likely change that.
This may be a sign that OpenAI hopes to attract professional creators it previously isolated. Professional creators will need storyboarding, video editing, longer runtimes and higher resolution, and OpenAI seems to be handling these quickly.
OpenAI has a difficult past with professional creators. Before launching Sora It is said It reached out to talent agencies and other companies, such as gaming and streaming companies, saying it would need to opt out of access to its intellectual property through Sora. This means that if Nintendo doesn’t want Sora users to be able to create AI-powered videos of Pikachu, it should tell OpenAI.
this Not how copyright law works. OpenAI changed its policies a few days after Sora’s launch and added more controls on how your photos are used. It was just the last episode in An ongoing battle Between artificial intelligence companies and innovators.
(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that it infringed Ziff Davis’s copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)
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