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A co-lead on Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, has left for Google

A co-lead on OpenAI's video generator, Sora, has left the company to join Google, where he'll also be working on video generation tech.

Tim Brooks, who was heading development on Sora with William Peebles, announced in a post on X this evening that he’ll be joining Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research division, to work on video generation technologies and “world simulators.” The news comes as Sora, which has yet to be released, reportedly suffers from technical setbacks that position it poorly against rival systems from Luma, Runway, and others. Per The Information, the original system, revealed in February, took more than 10 minutes of processing time to make a 1-minute video clip.

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