Sora 2 and an AI Video Boom, Meta’s Vibes One Week Later, Questions on TikTok, Solar Power, and the iPhone Air
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Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Sharp Tech. I'm Andrew Sharp, and on the other line, Ben Thompson. Ben, how you doing?
Feeling chastised, Andrew, but, we can get to the reasons why momentarily.
Oh, boy.
No. I'm feeling old. I I'm feeling old. That's how I'm feeling.
And is this related to our emergency episode dedicated to meta vibes last Friday?
It might be. As I told you, that's why I don't do emergency episodes. No. I I I think it's it's actually a very ripe topic for discussion, so I'm actually looking forward to this.
It sure is. Feels like we're recording in the middle of the slop revolution here. Very exciting stuff. We're going to get to the vibes reactions later in the episode, but I'm gonna start with the news of this week, which was the release from OpenAI of Sora two. I'll read from an OpenAI blog post titled Sora two is here. They write the original Sora model from February 2024 was in many ways the GPT one moment for video. The first time video generation started to seem like it was working and simple behaviors like object permanence emerged from scaling up pre training compute. Since then, the Sor
So I kinda poop with this statement. Like, it seems awfully audacious to claim that we're going to re recreate one of the seminal moments in all of technological history. Yep. And I think that's probably still fair. Like, I'm not sure if anything, like, in our lifetime will ever quite match.
It's a very, very high bar. I think that's worth noting. Yes.
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