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Elon Musk Mocks Sam Altman Amid Sora’s Pre-Launch Buzz

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The global race for AI development never seems to stop. Concerning this, Sam Altam’s OpenAI, the creator of chatbot ChatGPT, recently curated an international buzz with its recent revelation of Sora, a text-to-video creation AI platform. The platform soon gained notable traction with its one-of-a-kind staging within the AI landscape. However, not all eminent individuals across the industry appear to be siding with OpenAI’s positioning as a profitable pioneer in the AI realm. Intriguingly, Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and X Corp, mocked Sam Altman’s OpenAI and Sora, as seen in a post shared by him on the social media platform X. The post shared by Elon Musk spotlighted Doge Designer’s mockish reply to a previously shared Sora-related post by Sam Altman.

Doge Designer is the graphics UX/UI designer at Doge.

A Closer Look Into Doge Designer’s Reply

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently shared a post asking people to provide prompts to showcase Sora’s capabilities. Concerning this, among hundreds of replies seen on his post, one sparked a sense of frenzy within the AI realm.

Doge Designer’s comment asking Sora to provide a video for “a guy turning a nonprofit open source company into a profit-making closed source company” appears to have birthed a torrent of speculative buzz today, February 16. Additionally, Musk’s repost of a screenshot of this incident garnered further attention within the industry, curating inferences for OpenAI’s prominence within the market ahead.

OpenAI was initially started as a nonprofit and an open-source organization, mirroring its name, “Open” AI. However, as of today, the company is placing itself as a maximum-profit company, contrasting with the firm’s initial vision during its establishment.

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Sora: A Game-Changing Development For OpenAI?

Notably, as seen in hundreds of replies on Sam Altman’s post about Sora, the platform appears to be nabbing significant attention soon after its unveiling. Some of the most renowned prominencies globally seem to be extremely fascinated with the development of this AI, encompassing Freecharge co-founder Kunal Shah, OctaneAI CEO Matt Schlicht, Bitcoin Archive, and many others.

Although the platform is only available for red teamers as of now, its access will be granted to visual artists, designers, and filmmakers shortly ahead so that the company can improve its services.

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