Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, February 16th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Huge watershed reveal of Open AIs SORA, its first text to video model which can create up to a minute of

1080-P video.

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Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. I mean these things are going to keep coming every week at this point but this one seems

epoch making. Open AI has unveiled SORA, its first text to video model, which can create up to a minute of

1080 video from text prompts.

Quoting the verge, SORA is capable of creating complex scenes with multiple characters specific types of motion

and accurate details of the subject and background according to Open AI's introductory blog post.

The company also notes that the model can understand

how objects quote exist in the real world as well as accurately interpret

prompts and generate compelling characters that express vibrant emotions.

The model can also generate a video based on a still image as well as fill in missing frames

on an existing video or extend it.

The SORRIT generated demos included in Open AI's blog posts include an aerial scene of California during the gold rush, a video that looks as if it were shot from the inside of a Tokyo train, and others. Many have some telltale signs of AI like a

suspiciously moving floor in a video of a museum and Open AI says the model

quote may struggle with accurately simulating the physics of a complex scene but the results

are overall pretty impressive quoting Stephen Levy and Wired.

Other companies from giants like Google to startups like Runway have already revealed text to video AI projects but open AI says that Sura is distinguished by its striking photo realism something I haven't seen in its competitors, and its ability to produce longer

clips than the brief snippets other models typically do up to one minute.

The researchers I spoke to won't say how long it takes to render all that video but when pressed they

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