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Sora generates minute-long coherent video

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OpenAI previews Sora, a video model producing up to a minute of high-fidelity video from text.

What happened and why it matters

Sora was framed by OpenAI as a step toward "world simulators": scaled video models showing emergent 3D consistency and object permanence, though with obvious physics failures.

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