OpenAI Unveils Sora Text-to-Video Model While Facing Outages and Executive Departures
The release of Sora highlights OpenAI's rapid innovation, but surging demand and internal challenges test its stability.
- OpenAI launched Sora, a text-to-video model capable of generating 20-second 1080p videos from text prompts, available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers.
- The release of Sora caused significant outages due to overwhelming demand, with OpenAI denying any connection to its recent Apple Intelligence integration.
- OpenAI announced new features for its Advanced Voice Mode, including real-time visual recognition, enhancing the multimodal capabilities of ChatGPT.
- The company has faced internal challenges, including the exits of key executives such as CTO Mira Murati and co-founder Ilya Sutskever, alongside ongoing copyright lawsuits.
- OpenAI’s '12 Days of OpenAI' event continues through December 23, with further product announcements and updates expected.
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