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OpenAI Made Video Creation Effortless—Here's What Happened Next
Sora 2 removed every creative barrier, but our feeds tell a different story about human imagination
Oct 16, 2025 · 9 min readUpdated Jul 7, 2026
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Sam Altman is here. Sam Altman is there. Sam Altman is whispering in your ear.
He’s also stealing GPUs from a Target, barbecuing prawns at a company retreat, and co-starring in a sitcom with your best friend.
I, for one, would like a day—just one—without Sam Altman in my feed. But that looks highly unlikely in the near future because of Sora 2.
OpenAI’s new flagship video-and-audio model launched a couple of weeks ago, and now everyone’s starring in AI-generated videos of themselves—along with, apparently, Sam Altman.
Sora 2 is OpenAI’s first new video model since the release of Sora Turbo almost a year ago. On the same day it released Sora 2, OpenAI also released an invitation-only social iOS app, also called Sora, that’s powered by the new model. If you grant the app permission to use a recording of your face and voice, your friends can drop you into their videos as a “cameo”—and you can return the favor. Another popular feature, “remix,” lets users build on each other’s clips: You can take a video your friend generated and put your own spin on it.
Think of it as Instagram for your AI self. Instead of sun-drenched selfies and pictures of brunch, your feed is full of videos of you and your friends in all kinds of wacky invented situations—like having a horse ride them on the moon or approaching Altman—yes, him again—at OpenAI’s DevDay.
You can access Sora at sora.com, via the Sora iPhone app, and, per OpenAI’s announcement at DevDay, in the API. Read on for a look at what people on the Every team think about Sora, along with the most interesting takes from across the internet.
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Sora stands out because it’s the first video model that can tell a story—and invite you in
“Sora feels like the first truly entertainment/storytelling generative model, not just visually, but narratively… What sets it apart isn’t...
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