- Free users can now generate 15-second Sora 2 videos
- Professional users can generate 25 seconds and have access to the Storyboard, allowing multiple scenes to be merged.
- OpenAI released Sora 2 earlier this month, enabling incredibly impressive AI-generated videos.
OpenAI just announced a new update to its market-leading AI video generation tool, Sora 2, and scrolling through social media will be even harder to distinguish between real and fake.
On X, the official OpenAI account shared news of “2 Sora 2 updates,” and both new updates give users even more power when creating AI-generated videos.
The first and most notable update is the new ability for all users to generate videos up to 15 seconds long in the Sora 2 app or on the web. Previously, the longest videos you could generate with the tool were around 10 seconds long.
Pro users paying the hefty $200/£200/month subscription for ChatGPT and all other high-end OpenAI tools will be able to generate 25 seconds of video with Sora 2, a big increase over the previous limit.
The second feature announced today for Pro users is the arrival of Sora’s Storyboard tool, which allows users to stitch together clips and create stunning AI-generated videos with multiple scenes. OpenAI has not announced when or if this Sora 2 feature will be available to Plus and Free users in the future.
If you live in the US or Canada, you can try Sora 2 today through the Sora app or at www.sora.com. Those of us in the rest of the world will have to wait patiently before we can participate in the creation of short videos that are beginning to be indistinguishable from reality.
2 updates to Sora 2: – Storyboards are now available on the web for Pro users. – All users can now generate videos up to 15 seconds on the app and web, Pro users up to 25 seconds on web pic.twitter.com/iINg7alWGLOctober 16, 2025
back to reality
I was sick last week with COVID and missed the initial release of Sora 2. While I was unwell, I stayed offline and took a much-needed break from the internet to let my mind and body recover.
Returning to work this week, I found social media apps like Instagram and
If we look closely, most of us can still determine what has been generated by AI and what is reality, but as we scroll through Instagram, it’s as if our mind is playing tricks on us, and our first instinct is not to question whether something is real or not.
This week they caught me twice. The first was a video of one of my favorite wrestlers, Roman Reigns, meeting football superstar Kylian Mbappé, and the second was a fake launch of Scotland’s upcoming Adidas jersey. Both times, I shared the content with friends before rationalizing and realizing that neither of them were real.
With Sora 2 becoming more powerful every day and rumors of Google will release Gemini 3 next week along with an improved version of I Spy, this is just the beginning and I’m afraid of what’s to come.
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