OpenAI's Sora 2 launches with insanely realistic video and an iPhone app

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• OpenAI's most capable video model, Sora 2, is here.
• The company also launched a new iOS social media-like app.
• Both the app and the new model are free to access.

If you thought OpenAI's first video-generating model, Sora, was realistic, wait until you see what Sora 2 can do on both the video and audio front. 

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OpenAI finally launched the highly anticipated next-generation flagship video and audio generation model, Sora 2, on Tuesday. The new model is meant to be significantly more capable, tackling typically difficult tasks for video generators, which OpenAI equates to the jump from GPT-1 to GPT-3.5. 

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