Overview

• Sora 2 powers a new iOS social app that rapidly hit No. 1 in Apple’s U.S. App Store, despite access being limited to invitations in the United States and Canada.
• The upgraded model generates short, highly realistic videos with synchronized dialogue and sound effects, demonstrating more physically plausible motion than prior systems.
• A biometric “cameo” feature lets users create controllable likenesses for use in AI clips, a capability that quickly produced viral videos of Sam Altman and other realistic deepfakes.
• Reporting indicates OpenAI is allowing copyrighted characters in outputs by default unless rights holders opt out, drawing warnings from legal experts and adding to ongoing copyright disputes involving the company.
• OpenAI says every Sora video carries moving watermarks and invisible metadata, but the company acknowledges metadata can be stripped, and outside experts say the overall provenance measures need further testing.