Barely a day after OpenAI made Sora available, registrations have already closed. Demand turned out to be much higher than expected.
Yesterday, OpenAI launched Sora to the general public. Although EU countries were not yet part of that launch, the tool is much more popular worldwide than expected. Sora’s available capacity is insufficient for the demand, making new account creation temporarily impossible.
It will be a while before everyone can access Sora. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, says his company is looking into how to make that happen as soon as possible. High demand and additional capacity issues are not good news for curious European users, who will thus have to wait even longer before they get a chance to try out the tool.
Video LLM
Sora is an LLM that can generate short videos. Those videos are based on photos, descriptions or even other videos. Clips currently have a maximum length of twenty seconds with a default resolution of 480p, although the LLM can also create higher-resolution clips.
Perfect Sora is far from perfect. For example, the LLM finds it difficult to represent long complex tasks, or adequately account for laws of physics (such as the correct impact of gravity, for example).
With Sora, OpenAI is taking another important step in LLMs’ capabilities. OpenAI promised to make Sora available before Christmas, but in the meantime it does not seem realistic that everyone will have access before the end of the year.