Key Takeaways
- Sora 2 improves on its predecessor by allowing users to incorporate synchronized dialogue and sound effects to the video clips generated by the model.
- OpenAI simultaneously launched an app for Sora, adding a social media component to the video generator that lets users remix each other’s generations and add the likeness of themselves or their friends into videos with a feature known as “cameos.”
- Users can insert their likeness into videos after making a video-and-audio recording in the Sora app to verify their identity.
- The Sora app was immediately made available for download in the U.S. and Canada, with ChatGPT Pro users receiving access to an “experimental, higher quality” Sora 2 model on Sora’s own website.

