Sora changed the game

2007: Go to Blockbuster, rent a movie

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2017: Stream Netflix

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2027: Ask Sora to generate a new Game of Thrones saga to enjoy this evening, set in ancient Japan and featuring Scarlett Johansson, Dwayne Johnson, and Zendaya.

Named after the Japanese word for "sky," Sora is OpenAI’s first foray into AI-generated video. Sora can “create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.”

Right now, each video is about a minute long, and the quality is Hollywood-B-roll-worthy. And Sora seems capable of creating complex scenes with multiple characters. And even understanding emotions. Check out some awesome early videos Sam Altman is sharing on X:

https://twitter.com/sama

To put the scale of this disruption in context, this time last year, we could barely generate realistic pictures with AI. Today, we can create Hollywood-grade AI-generated footage at our fingertips.

The "patch" is the basic unit of Sora in the same way the “token” is the basic unit of GPT-4. Tokens are bits of words, while patches are bits of movies.

GPT-4 seems to learn the rules of grammar to predict the next word in a sequence.

Sora seems to learn physics and the rules of the universe to predict the next

segment of video.

And OpenAI sees Sora as the first step in a “world simulator” that can model any slice of reality with a text prompt.

Being able to ask Gen AI like Sora to generate a highly customised and new 'Game of Thrones' saga on demand disrupts the content creation, distribution and consumption industry.

In this scenario, the content consumers access is generated as they request, not pre-made or pre-packaged. This process depends on potent GPU clusters located within centralised data centres. Because the content is created on the spot, optimising or preloading it onto personal devices for smoother delivery is challenging. Hence, there will be a pressing need for advanced broadband infrastructure, such as fibre-optic networks, to handle these real-time data demands effectively.

The future is data and content-rich. The future needs fibre.