Sora 2

• 🆕 OpenAI's video model generating clips with synchronized audio
• 👁️ Image-to-video: animate an input reference image with prompts
• 🧠 More physically accurate and controllable than prior Sora systems
• 🎯 Follows multi-shot instructions while persisting world state
• 💬 Adds synced dialogue and sound effects, new this generation
• 🎬 Excels at realistic, cinematic, and anime styles
• 🔧 Videos API supports creating, extending, and editing clips

OpenAI

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Sora 2 is OpenAI's media generation model that produces short video clips with synchronized audio, working from natural-language prompts or input images. This entry is the image-to-video pathway: you supply a reference image matching the target resolution plus a prompt describing motion and action, and the model animates it into a clip. It belongs to a family that also includes the higher-fidelity Sora 2 Pro, the prompt-driven Sora 2 (text-to-video), and Sora 2 Pro (text-to-video).

OpenAI positions Sora 2 as "more physically accurate, realistic, and more controllable than prior systems," its own framing of how it improves on the original Sora. The most concrete generational change is audio: where the first Sora produced silent video, Sora 2 generates synchronized dialogue, sound effects, and ambient soundscapes alongside the visuals.

On physics, OpenAI notes the model is better about obeying physical laws and can model failure rather than only success — a missed basketball rebounds off the backboard instead of teleporting into the hoop. OpenAI also describes a leap in controllability, with the model following intricate instructions spanning multiple shots while accurately persisting world state across them.

OpenAI acknowledges remaining limits, including difficulty with complex physics, spatial reasoning, and precise event timing. Released on September 25, 2025, Sora 2 is exposed through OpenAI's Videos API, which supports creating, extending, and editing clips programmatically.