OpenAI launches Sora 2 in Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan: What can the feature do?

Thailand is one of the first Asian nations to get access to the tool that was initially launched in Canada and the US in early September.

Apart from Thailand, the feature has also been rolled out in Vietnam and Taiwan.

OpenAI had posted a unique video featuring chief Sam Altman, announcing the launch of the app in Asian countries.

The company announced: "You can now get into the Sora app without an invite code in the US, Canada, Japan, and Korea."

OpenAI said the facility will be available for a 'limited time only'.

People in Thailand can download the app for free on iOS with no invite code. For now, use limits are relatively generous, though those limits may change, reported AI News.

The original Sora model⁠ from February 2024 was in many ways the GPT‑1 moment for video—the first time video generation started to seem like it was working, and simple behaviours like object permanence emerged from scaling up pre-training compute.

Since then, the Sora team has been focused on training models with more advanced world simulation capabilities.

"We believe such systems will be critical for training AI models that deeply understand the physical world. A major milestone for this is mastering pre-training and post-training on large-scale video data, which are in their infancy compared to language," OpenAI had said, announcing the launch of Sora.

The company had previously announced Sora 2 will initially be available for free.

"ChatGPT Pro users will also be able to use our experimental, higher quality Sora 2 Pro model on sora.com⁠(opens in a new window) (and soon in the Sora app as well). We also plan to release Sora 2 in the API. Sora 1 Turbo will remain available, and everything you’ve created will continue to live in your sora.com⁠(opens in a new window) library," the company had announced.