Sora is here

The version of Sora we are deploying has many limitations. It often generates unrealistic physics and struggles with complex actions over long durations. Although Sora Turbo is much faster than the February preview, we’re still working to make the technology affordable for everyone.

We’re introducing our video generation technology now to give society time to explore its possibilities and co-develop norms and safeguards that ensure it’s used responsibly as the field advances. 

All Sora-generated videos come with C2PA⁠(opens in a new window) metadata, which will identify a video as coming from Sora to provide transparency, and can be used to verify origin. While imperfect, we’ve added safeguards like visible watermarks by default, and built an internal search tool that uses technical attributes of generations² to help verify if content came from Sora.

Today, we’re blocking particularly damaging forms of abuse, such as child sexual abuse materials and sexual deepfakes³. Uploads of people will be limited at launch, but we intend to roll the feature out to more users as we refine our deepfake mitigations⁴. You can read more about our approach to safety and monitoring in the system card⁠ as well as details on our red teaming efforts⁵.

We hope this early version of Sora will enable people everywhere to explore new forms of creativity, tell their stories, and push the boundaries of what’s possible with video storytelling. We’re excited to see what the world will create with Sora.