- 12 days of OpenAI ended on Friday
- That hasn’t stopped Sam Altman from giving away a final 13th ad.
- ChatGPT Plus Subscribers Get Unlimited Access to Sora During the Holidays
The 12 days of the OpenAI event ended on Friday, but that didn’t stop Sam Altman from making an additional 13th announcement this weekend, and it’s a good one.
At X, the CEO of OpenAI, announced that Sora will be completely free for all ChatGPT Plus users during the holidays, providing unlimited access to the new AI video generator.
Sora was made available to the public last week and is already proving to be a huge success thanks to its ease of use and quick ability to turn any message into video. Altman announced the bonus giveaway by saying, “Our GPUs are a little less busy at the end of December when people take a break from work,” in other words, have fun with AI and Sora this December and make AI-generated puppy videos .
The announcement follows OpenAI’s 12-day grand finale, where the company behind ChatGPT announced its new o3 and o3-mini reasoning models, which outperform existing models and are expected to launch in the coming months.
To get early access to o3 when it’s available and take advantage of unlimited access to Sora for the next week, you’ll need ChatGPT Plus. ChatGPT Plus costs $20/£16/AU$30 per month and comes with plenty of other benefits, including faster response times and the latest OpenAI models.
shipmas day 13: special sora bonus🎄✨our GPUs are a little less busy at the end of December when people take a break from work, so we’re giving all additional users unlimited access to sora through the relaxed queue during the holidays. Enjoy creating!December 21, 2024
A very merry Christmas
And so, the 12 (13) day OpenAI event has come to an end. Major announcements included the arrival of Sora, ChatGPT Search for all, o3, and even a ChatGPT tutorial as part of Siri in iOS 18.2. It’s fair to say that, while the 12 days were extended at times, OpenAI’s two-week event has been a huge success for the AI world and shows the possibilities of artificial intelligence in 2025.
Looking at the evolution of AI models over the past 12 months, who knows where we will be next year? One thing’s for sure: the era of AI video generation is just beginning and Sora, along with Google’s Veo 2 and Pika, look set to make 2025 really interesting.
