Sora
ENT-00000172 · AI Model

Sora

Sora is OpenAI’s text-to-video generation system, designed to create video scenes from prompts and represent physical movement, visual continuity and cinematic composition.

Level V PersistentDiscontinued productStructured
Human record

Overview

Sora is a AI model associated with OpenAI. This Entry records its public identity, classification as Foundation / Language Model, source provenance, release or appearance history, documented capabilities and graph relationships. Primary-source material is preferred for factual maintenance; secondary references are retained only as supporting context.

Timeline

  1. 2024-12-09Sora product released

    OpenAI moved Sora from research preview into a public product experience.

  2. 2025-09-30Sora 2 released

    OpenAI released Sora 2 as its next video-and-audio generation model.

  3. 2026-04-26Sora product discontinued

    OpenAI discontinued the Sora web and app experiences.

Capabilities

language modellingmultimodal reasoninginstruction followingdeveloper integration

Known limitations

Capabilities and behavior depend on the specific model version, checkpoints, prompting, tools and deployment configuration.Performance claims should be interpreted against the documented evaluation protocol and source material rather than generalized across tasks.Availability, licensing, safety controls and supported modalities may change over time.
Technical and structured detail

Technical description

Structured LXKeys.world registry record for Sora. Entity type: AI Model; classification: Foundation / Language Model; creator/organization context: OpenAI. Canonical source anchor: https://openai.com/index/sora-2/. The record tracks source authority, first public appearance, timeline, capabilities, limitations, registry status and graph relationships. Automatic refresh is limited to sources explicitly classified as OFFICIAL and enabled for updates; documentary and research references remain non-authoritative unless reviewed.

Controlled tags

ModelFoundation Model
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OpenAI

OpenAI is the primary organization or public context associated with Sora.

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Structured entry data for human tools, AI systems and machine clients.

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