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A Sight for Sora Eyes?

‘I… have so many questions,” Marques Brownlee, a tech-focused American YouTuber with a following of 6 million and counting, expressed his intrigue on the social media platform X on February 16. The candid response was directed at Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, a U.S.-based artificial intelligence (AI) research organization founded in 2015, after Altman earlier that day had unveiled Sora, his company’s most recent AI model and a leap in video-generation technology.

Sora represents a monumental stride in AI, harnessing the power to create 60-second videos from simple text prompts.

This innovation echoes the transformative impact of ChatGPT, introduced by OpenAI just a year earlier, which redefines the realms of writing, coding and text-to-image content creation.

Could Sora

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