Welcome to the tech meme right home for Monday, December 9th, 2024. I'm Brian McCalla today. OpenAI's

SORA model is here. TikTok is still in trouble. China does more turnabouts as fair play this time with

Nvidia. Is Apple belatedly getting serious about gaming on the Vision Pro, and did Google just make a huge

historic leap forward in quantum computing?

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

As long-rumored and much anticipated, OpenAI's video-generating AI model SORA is now available to use at SORA.com.

Users can generate videos up to 1080p resolution, up to 20 seconds long, in widescreen, vertical, or square aspect ratios.

Users can bring their own assets to extend remix and blend or generate entirely new content from text.

SORA is included as part of a plus account at no additional cost on OpenAI, and you can

generate up to 50 videos at 480p or slightly fewer at 720p per month.

Note, it is not available in the EU or China, quoting from the Open AI announcement.

For those who want more SORA, the pro plan includes 10x more usage, higher resolutions,

and longer durations. We're working on tailoring pricing for different types of users,

which we plan to make available early next year. 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 metadata, which will identify a video as coming

from SORA to provide transparency and can be used to verify origin.

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