OpenAI left a lot of jaws on the floor last month when it shared the first footage made by Sora, its AI-powered text-to-video generator.

The quality, while not perfect, was excellent and left many wondering what kind of transformative impact such technology will have on the creative industries, including Hollywood.

OpenAI has yet to release Sora to the public—that’s expected to happen later this year—but the company is happy to continue wowing everyone by regularly dropping Sora-generated videos onto its social media feeds.

The last one to land looks like a clip from a fantasy movie and was created from the simple text prompt: “An elephant of leaves running through the jungle.”

OpenAI keeps churning out more crazy Sora videos

These are 100% AI generated

9 reality videos

1. Elephant made of leaves pic.twitter.com/tPsHNGbFPS

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OpenAI said that Sora did all the work and that the extracted video was not modified in any way.

Of course, any video maker worth its salt needs to be adept at cat videos. Sora passed with flying colors when fed the text: “An adorable pirate kitten riding a robot vacuuming around the house.

6. An adorable pirate kitten riding a robot vacuums around the house

source: OpenAI TikTok pic.twitter.com/ClXadPPwpN

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When asked to create “Niagara Falls with colorful paint”, Sora came up with this amazing material.

5. Niagra Falls made of colorful paint

source: OpenAI TikTok pic.twitter.com/GsVW6Mu1mu

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And check out this amazing clip caused by: “POV video of a bee diving through a beautiful field of flowers.

The OpenAI team has released more wild Sora videos.

100% AI (minus sound)🤯

9 news:

1. Bee’s POV pic.twitter.com/RjjSm6kcEB

— Min Choi (@minchoi) March 14, 2024

Sora can create videos of up to a minute long “while maintaining visual quality and following user prompts,” OpenAI said when it introduced the tool last month. The Microsoft-backed startup, which created a stir last year with its AI-powered ChatGPT chatbot, said it decided to share its research progress with Sora early “to learn from feedback and give the public a sense of what Al’s potential is on the horizon.

He also said that he used publicly available data and licensed data to train Sora. The issue of how AI models are trained is a contentious one, with authors and artists demanding compensation in cases where the work is used by AI companies such as OpenAI. A number of lawsuits brought by creators have already made their way through the courts, prompting AI companies to seek licensing deals with media giants for seamless AI training.

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