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Sora (public launch)

OpenAI · 9 December 2024

Sora opens to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers outside Europe with storyboard, remix and editing tools, ten months after the preview.

Productised text-to-video around iteration rather than one-shot prompts. Initial availability excluded Europe/UK; Wikipedia lists the US and Canada. Superseded by Sora 2 in September 2025 and shut down in 2026.

Date
Monday, 9 December 2024
Lab
OpenAI
Kind
product
Access
app only
Price
included in Plus ($20/mo) and Pro ($200/mo)

Regional scope differs slightly between the two sources.

Sources

  1. simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/sora/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sora_(text-to-video_model)

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