Following an iOS-only (and invite-only) launch, OpenAI’s Sora video generation app has made its way to Android devices. Don’t get too excited yet. The launch is confined to a specific geographic location, and South Africa isn’t one of those.
Sora, which recently added the option to pay for extra video generations, is available on Google’s mobile OS in Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the US, and Vietnam, according to a post from the platform’s official X account. You probably don’t live in any of those places.
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If you check out the official Play Store download page, you’ll note that the video creation app “isn’t available for any of your devices.” It’ll be some time until SA users can spam their social media feeds with short AI-created videos, with the option to remix and remake those that others have put together. It’s a pity, because what the world needs right now is another short-form video social media platform. Right?
If and when it does get here, free users get up to 30 video generations a day, with the option to pay seventy bucks for an extra ten. Those who already give OpenAI money every month can scoop up 100 daily generations, more than enough to start that AI slop social media platform. We’re sure that Sora won’t be the cause of ever more brainrot infecting the planet, especially as it rolls out more broadly.
