It's been a long time since OpenAI launched its original Sora model, creating one of the first AI video generators on the market. Since then the competition has come in thick and fast, knocking OpenAI off its pedestal.
OpenAI has come back with a vengeance, launching Sora 2. Not only is it better, faster and utilizes a better understanding of physics, but it even lets you create real people and utilize themes from TV shows and films.
That has been a controversial choice, allowing for deepfakes and permitting users to generate lots of videos of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. However, in a crowded market it also helps OpenAI to stand out.
We've been testing it ourselves and will soon fill you in on our own experiences with the tool, but we've also been seeing what the internet has been up to and it's a trip.
To show you what I mean, here are our favorite videos generated using Soma 2 so far.
Fail videos
Sora 2 Fail CompilationPrompt : A series of raw, grainy CCTV clips stitched together like a fail compilation. Each feed has a timestamp flickering in the corner, wide fisheye distortion, and washed-out colors. In one scene, a man carrying a stack of boxes in a convenience… pic.twitter.com/v4Un9LtmLKOctober 2, 2025
Video produced by D_studioproject
Sure, in theory a group of blurry videos of people falling over isn't that impressive. And yet, it kind of is.
Here, Sora is able to recreate videos with motion and a lot of movement, while also achieving a blurred video effect that would be seen in low cost cameras.
If you look closely, it is still clearly AI. Objects blur in the background or the clock timings don't quite add up. But compared to the AI video generations Sora was making before, this is a massive jump.
Modelling career
Sora 2 is mind-blowing.You can upload image references and have cameos interact with them.It generates a fully edited video complete with music, sound and lip sync, all from just ONE prompt. pic.twitter.com/zIKaeGg5gqSeptember 30, 2025
Video produced by Halim Alrasihi
This is one of the more... appropriate videos that has used Sam Altman in Sora 2. It also displays an interesting concept that I've not personally seen done in AI video generations yet.
By giving the generator both an outfit and a person, you can see how that outfit might look on them.
While a lot of Sora 2 generations seem to be leaning towards comedy or simply being very unhinged, this shows the practical capabilities it could have in the future.
Alien Masterchef
Chef critiques alien food on MasterChef, Sora 2 pic.twitter.com/zdAWk3tJyESeptember 30, 2025
Video produced by user Skirano
Where the above prompt shows how useful Sora 2 could be, this one shows the complete opposite end of a spectrum. Who knew we needed an alien version of Masterchef on our TVs.
This is also a great example of how well the AI sound generation works alongside the video. Is it slightly insane? Of course. But is it brilliant? Obviously.
"The foam tastes like battery acid" in that aggressive celebrity chef voice and a gentle tear falling at the same time is an Oscar worthy performance.
Car adverts
Sora 2 + Reference image + prompts.I uploaded my car images then added a base prompt that’s something like this:“use this car as a reference and make a cinematic automotive ad for this”or even simpler like “make automotive ad for this car” and then add some extra details… pic.twitter.com/A9tjILXtmTOctober 2, 2025
Video produced by AllarHaltsonen
Who says you need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a car advert? This Sora 2 video creates a new version of the Lamborghini Urus, complete with a Nike collaboration.
The car looks realistic, it is driving according to the laws of physics (which is fairly new to AI video) and the voiceover fits the style that we all know and love from the many car adverts on TV.
Dog skydiving
Dog parachuting, GoPro footage, Sora 2 pic.twitter.com/c8kiEX6i4NOctober 1, 2025
It's a dog skydiving... what more do you want? This video especially appealed to me, having spend a long time trying to get the original Sora model to create someone skydiving.
It was a complete mess, with limbs flying everywhere, facing morphing in and out and parachutes disappearing mid-fall.
Here, everything makes more sense. The dogs ears flap in the wind, the person is falling in the way we see skydivers fall, and you even see the parachute open at the same time as the man announces it.
While a more realistic sound for this video would just be an unbearable amount of noise and muffled voices, it is surprisingly accurtate in audio.
Movie quality clips
SORA 2 CAN BE PRETTY AWESOME!The camera shadows a weathered survivor's piercing eyes in the midst of a sandstorm-swept ambush on rusted highways. Her skin is scarred by radiation and wrapped in scavenged hazmat rags, her gray eyes sharp with wary resolve. She layers patched… pic.twitter.com/DaUdoYP7TGOctober 1, 2025
While some are using Sora to create videos of dogs skydiving and blurry fail videos, others are making blockbuster movie clips.
This feels like something pulled straight from Mad Max or any other dystopian movie. While there are still hallucinations, most notably in the stickers on the car changing, it otherwise looks incredible.
The facial features and the way the hair moves feels incredibly natural. There is a lot going on in the background, which is something that would normally immediately cause issues for a video generator, but here it all works fine.
Like the other clips, the audio generated fits the theme and sounds quite impressive.
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