Sora's Reality Check — Accurately and Thoroughly Explained | by Daniel Warfield | January, 2025

The performance of the OpenAI video generation model, and the theory behind it

OpenAI recently released Sora, their edge video production model. With Sora, they also released a web UI that allows users to produce and edit videos in complex and interesting ways. In this article we'll be exploring the features of that UI, and how Sora might enable those features.

Who is this useful for? Anyone who wants to use AI to produce video, or who wants to build a deeper understanding of artificial intelligence.

How advanced is this post? This post is intended for a general audience, and is designed to be a gentle introduction to artificial intelligence. It also contains some guesses about how Sora works, which may challenge more advanced readers.

Prerequisites: Nothing.

At the time of writing, here is the Sora UI main page: