OpenAI is ramping up plans for its AI video generator Sora — and that involves a charm offensive in Hollywood. Details are still fuzzy, but we know the company is approaching filmmakers as well as studios. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and COO Brad Lightcap are having “introductory conversations” with industry stakeholders, according to Bloomberg. Unspecified … Read more
OpenAI wants to be a star. A big, bright, shining star. According to a new report, the influential AI company has spent the last few months courting Hollywood executives in the hopes of convincing them that its newest content-generator, Sora, will be useful when it comes to making movies. I Gave Sam Altman a Copy … Read more
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Before he died, knowing that the end was coming, Ryuichi Sakamoto planned one last performance. The film — which features a career-spanning selection from his oeuvre of pop music, movie scores, and experimental and ambient compositions — rearranges many songs for solo piano; a showcase of the strength and mutability of Sakamoto’s work. In a … Read more
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, OpenAI stunned the blogosphere with the release of Sora, a new AI model that can generate videos in impressively high fidelity. We’ve seen video generators before. But what makes Sora unique is its understanding of time … Read more
On Thursday, OpenAI once again shook up the AI world with a video generation model called Sora. The demos showed photorealistic videos with crisp detail and complexity, based off of simple text prompts. A video based on the prompt “Reflections in the window of a train traveling through the Tokyo suburbs” looked like it was … Read more
OpenAI just dropped an AI bombshell with its new video generating model Sora. The text-to-video diffusion model is capable of minute-long videos that are so realistic, it looks like the real thing. Reactions on X can be divided into two camps: “Is Sora going to make video production obsolete?” and “How can I try it?” … Read more
We already know that OpenAI’s chatbots can pass the bar exam without going to law school. Now, just in time for the Oscars, a new OpenAI app called Sora hopes to master cinema without going to film school. For now a research product, Sora is going out to a few select creators and a number … Read more