Many great AI video generators have emerged since Sora blew people away, but it's hard not to feel like a kid with their nose pressed up against the glass of the toy store, wondering why we can't play with the toys just a little bit. Here's why I think OpenAI and the rest of the reticent AI video creation models are still locked away.

A group of artists who say they were given early access to OpenAI's Sora video generation model released a version of the tool to the public.

On Tuesday, a group of 16 artists leaked OpenAI's unreleased Sora text-to-video generator to the public. In an open letter addressed to "Corporate AI Overlords" and posted on the AI hosting platform Hugging Face,