First 48 Hours With Sora 2: The Good, The Bizarre, and Sam Altman
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Hey, what's up, guys? Welcome back to The Neuron. I'm Cory Knowles here with Grant, as always, and boy, today do we have something fun to share. What are we looking at? What are we looking at? We are looking at Sora 2. For those of you who maybe have been living under a rock for the last three days, Grant, you want to kind of give the run through of what Sora 2 is? Yeah. So Sora 2 is the next generation of OpenAI's video model. As you can see there, all of everything that you see on the screen before you is AI generated, even though it features what looks like real people. This is a new app that they created called Sora.com. You're going to be seeing a lot of weird videos of Sam Altman. I kind of think of this as the Tom from MySpace.
Like, remember when Tom from MySpace was everyone's friend? Sam Altman is like everyone's. Sam Altman is now Tom. He has absolutely become Tom. That may not have been the goal, but if we had the ability to throw Tom into videos, we'd have absolutely done it. And yeah, so this is like the next generation they previously had Sora. This one's very good. The unique feature here is something that's called cameo, which as you can see, that's how all of these real people are showing up in all these videos. They've essentially recorded a version of themselves that they're then loaning out to other people to make memes of. Sorry, Matt Berman is killing me here. Yeah. What is that? What is happening? He made his cameo available to everyone too.
Love it. Smart. Love it. As did I. I'm having way too much fun with this tool. Finally got access this week. Yeah. And, you know, it's just been, it's a lot of fun. It's very much a social media platform as much as it is anything else. Right. It is very much like TikTok. You know, when you first come in and the mobile's like this, but picture it's skinny. Trust me. The mobile app is pretty great. It's updated twice today. It's still, remember, this is very new. Like we're in the tens of thousands of people from what I understand at this point. So like it's going to have updates as you get people into a new tool. You know, you're going to have to fix things. So keep an eye on your updates on your phone if you notice any problems with it running funny.
I would say here's the neat thing. There's a For You button, just like every other social media app has now. And you can go in here. You can change it to people you're following. You can change it to top videos, latest videos. But there is also an option, which I'm not seeing here. Forgive me for not being more familiar with the desktop version. that lets you customize it right lets you customize the mood it's like hey what mood are you into and you can say i want funny stuff or you can say bizarre you can say dumb you can say musical you can say anything you want there and it will instantly craft you a feed of that that's awesome And it is really good. So, you know, there's all this on your feed. You can, let's pick one here.
Let's see what Sam's doing. Please note, Grant and I are riffing this whole thing. There was no prep. There was no anything. There was us getting on a call to record something else and talking about the app and realizing, you know, we need to do a sort of video right now. So that's what you get. So, you know, you've got tons of videos. New bookshelves I just installed.
in my garage with my GPUs. But you know what's even more important than compute?
He's going to rip those up and turn them into training data like Anthropic. Absolutely. Now, in the app, you can scroll left to right, and that will give you remixes of that same video. In here, you're going to click on the remix button, and you can make changes. Let's make changes here. Tell him, like, end the video with him ripping off the covers and turning it into training data. There we go. There we go. All right. Yeah. In the video with him ripping off the covers and turning everything he sees into training data. Love it. Also, give him way, way, way more GPUs.
Love it.
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