- Free users can now generate 15-second Sora 2 videos
- Pro users can generate 25 seconds and have access to Storyboard, allowing for multiple scenes to be merged together
- OpenAI launched Sora 2 earlier this month, allowing for incredibly impressive AI-generated video
OpenAI just announced a new update to its market-leading AI video generation tool, Sora 2, and scrolling social media is going to become even harder to tell real from fake.
On X, the official OpenAI account shared news of "2 Sora 2 updates", and both of the new upgrades give users even more power when creating AI-generated video.
The first, and most headline-worthy update is the new ability for all users to generate videos up to 15 seconds in length on the Sora 2 app or on the web. Previously, the longest videos you could generate with the tool were around 10 seconds.
Pro users who pay the hefty $200/£200 a month subscription for ChatGPT and all other top-of-the-range OpenAI tools will be able to generate 25 seconds of video with Sora 2 – a big increase from the previous limit.
The second feature announced today for Pro users is the arrival of Sora's Storyboard tool, which allows users to piece together clips and create impressive AI-generated videos with multiple scenes. OpenAI has not announced when or if this Sora 2 feature will become available for Plus and Free users in the future.
If you live in the U.S or Canada, you can try Sora 2 today via the Sora app or at www.sora.com. Those of us in the rest of the world will need to wait patiently before we can participate in creating short videos that are starting to become indistinguishable from reality.
2 Sora 2 updates:- Storyboards are now available on web to Pro users- All users can now generate videos up to 15 seconds on app and web, Pro users up to 25 seconds on web pic.twitter.com/iINg7alWGLOctober 16, 2025
Back to reality
I was off sick last week with COVID and missed Sora 2's initial launch. While I was unwell, I stayed offline, taking a much-needed break from the internet to let my mind and body recover.
Returning to work this week, I've found social media apps like Instagram and X eye-opening to say the least, and with the length of Sora 2 videos increasing, I'm not sure how I feel about the whole thing.
If we look closely, most of us can still determine what has been AI-generated and what's reality, but while doomscrolling through Instagram, it's as if your mind plays a trick on you, and your first instinct isn't to question if something is real or not.
Just this week, I've been caught out twice. The first was a video of one of my favorite wrestlers, Roman Reigns, meeting soccer superstar Kylian Mbappé, and the second, a fake launch of Scotland's next Adidas jersey. Both times, I shared the content with friends before rationalizing and realizing neither was real.
With Sora 2 getting more powerful by the day, and rumors of Google launching Gemini 3 next week alongside an upgraded version of Veo, this is only the beginning, and I'm scared of what's to come.
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