What is Sora Turbo and is it a game-changer for artificial intelligence?

Launch triggers an online frenzy among users, causing the company to temporarily halt new account creations.

Sora, an artificial intelligence (AI) video generator program created by startup OpenAI in 2021, is making waves as it has now moved out of the research phase and has been officially released to the public under the new name of Sora Turbo.

The launch has triggered an online frenzy among users, causing the company to temporarily halt new account creations after finding itself overwhelmed by an avalanche of traffic.

Sora uses text prompts to create content, similar to other content creation programs such as ChatGPT. Unlike traditional AI programs which produce written responses, Sora creates high-quality videos based on a user’s text input.

According to a statement from OpenAI which accompanied the release on December 9, Sora Turbo is an improvement on the original Sora program as it allows for faster video creation, higher quality videos and a host of video editing features which enable users to clip and create video sequences, and to change elements in a video while preserving other parts of the video.