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‘Shining on international stage’: Chinese developers of OpenAI’s text-to-video generator Sora receive acclaim at home

  • Two of the 13 members of OpenAI’s Sora development team, Jing Li and Ricky Wang Yu, were recently singled out on the mainland for their efforts
  • The praise heaped on Jing and Wang reflects China’s excitement over how Sora further advances artificial intelligence applications

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Unveiled by OpenAI on February 16, Sora can generate videos up to a minute long, while maintaining visual quality and adherence to a user’s prompt. Photo: Shutterstock
Coco Fengin Beijing
At least two Chinese developers involved in building Sora, the newly released text-to-video generator from ChatGPT creator OpenAI, have received acclaim on the mainland for their efforts, showing how the advanced generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology has ignited interest across the country where the Microsoft-backed start-up’s services are not officially available.

Unveiled by OpenAI on February 16, Sora can generate videos up to a minute long, while maintaining visual quality and adherence to a user’s prompt. It is able to generate complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and accurate details of the subject and background based on what a user has asked for.

Two of the 13 members of the Sora development team, Jing Li and Ricky Wang Yu, were recently singled out on the mainland for their efforts.

Jing joined San Francisco-based Open AI in October 2022, while Wang has only been with the company for about two months, according to their respective LinkedIn profiles.

A video created by Sora, Open AI’s text-to-video generator, plays on a monitor in Washington, DC on February 16, 2024. The Microsoft-backed company said the new platform was currently being tested, but released a few videos of what it was now capable of creating. Photo: Agence France-Presse
A video created by Sora, Open AI’s text-to-video generator, plays on a monitor in Washington, DC on February 16, 2024. The Microsoft-backed company said the new platform was currently being tested, but released a few videos of what it was now capable of creating. Photo: Agence France-Presse
Jing was praised by alma mater Wuhan No 2 High School in central Hubei province for “shining on the international stage”, according to a post on Monday in the school’s official WeChat account.
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