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AI video is having its Stable Diffusion moment

Will Smith eating spaghetti , u/chaindrop, March 2023 Then, 10 months later, OpenAI announced Sora: Creating video from text , OpenAI, February 2024 Sora reset expectations about what a video model could be. The output was high resolution, smooth, and coherent. The examples looked like real video. It felt like we’d jumped into the future. The problem was, nobody could use it ! It was just a preview. This was like when OpenAI announced the DALL-E image generation model back in 2021. It was one of the most extraordinary pieces of software that had been seen for years, but nobody could use it. This created all of this pent-up demand that led to Stable Diffusion, which we wrote about last year. Now the same thing is happening with video. Sora made everyone realize what is possible. There are lots of models that are as good as Sora now Some are high-quality, some are fast, some focus on realism, and others focus on style and creativity. Some are open source, and the community is modifying, optimizing, and building upon them. …

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16 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC

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