December 9, 2024
OpenAI Sora released to ChatGPT users
OpenAIAn AI research company — created GPT, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the o-series reasoning models. released SoraOpenAI's text-to-video model — generates short clips from natural language descriptions. Turbo to ChatGPTOpenAI's conversational chat product — brought large language models to hundreds of millions of users. Plus and Pro users on December 9, 2024 — the first public access to its text-to-video model at sora.com.
What it was for
SoraOpenAI's text-to-video model — generates short clips from natural language descriptions. moved from research preview to a consumer product with a faster Turbo variant — generating short clips from text prompts inside ChatGPTOpenAI's conversational chat product — brought large language models to hundreds of millions of users. subscriptions. It previewed the video generation race that SoraOpenAI's text-to-video model — generates short clips from natural language descriptions. 2 and social features would escalate in 2025.
Companies
- OpenAI
Why it's here
SoraOpenAI's text-to-video model — generates short clips from natural language descriptions.'s public launch made generative video a paid consumer feature, not a lab demo.
Why it mattered
Text-to-video entered the same subscription bundle as chat and image models.
What it solved
Creators wanted accessible AI video without waiting lists or separate tools.
Media
- ImageSora (text-to-video model)
OpenAI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Related
- ChatGPT launchedNovember 30, 2022
- OpenAI Sora 2 releasedSeptember 30, 2025