{"id":640456,"date":"2024-10-04T02:32:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T23:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-co-lead-on-sora-openais-video-generator-has-left-for-google\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T02:32:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T23:32:01","slug":"a-co-lead-on-sora-openais-video-generator-has-left-for-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-co-lead-on-sora-openais-video-generator-has-left-for-google\/","title":{"rendered":"#A co-lead on Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, has left for Google"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the co-leads on OpenAI\u2019s video generator, Sora, has left for Google. <\/p>\n

Tim Brooks, who was heading development on Sora with William Peebles, announced in a post<\/a> on X that he\u2019ll be joining Google DeepMind, Google\u2019s AI research division, to work on video generation technologies and \u201cworld simulators.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI had an amazing two years at OpenAI making Sora,\u201d Brooks wrote. \u201cThank you to all the passionate and kind people I worked with.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I will be joining @GoogleDeepMind<\/a> to work on video generation and world simulators! Can’t wait to collaborate with such a talented team.<\/p>\n

I had an amazing two years at OpenAI making Sora. Thank you to all the passionate and kind people I worked with. Excited for the next chapter!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Tim Brooks (@_tim_brooks) October 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis welcomed Brooks in a reply<\/a> on X, saying that he\u2019ll help to \u201cmake the long-standing dream of a world simulator a reality.\u201d World simulator<\/em> is a rather vague phrase \u2014 and poorly defined \u2014 but DeepMind has app<\/a>lied it to models like its recently released Genie<\/a>, which can generate playable, action-controllable virtual worlds from synthesized images, real photos, and even sketches.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how DeepMind researchers explained it in a 2023 paper<\/a>: \u201cApplications of a real-world simulator range from controllable content creation in game<\/a>s and movies<\/a> to training embodied agents purely in simulation that can be directly deployed in the real world.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Brooks was one of the first to work on Sora, having kickstarted the project at OpenAI in January 2023. On his LinkedIn<\/a>, Brooks claims to have spearheaded the project\u2019s research direction and model training. <\/p>\n

His departure 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<\/a> The Information, the original system, revealed in February, took more than 10 minutes of processing time to make a 1-minute video clip. OpenAI is in the process of training an improved Sora that could quickly make clips, sources tell The Information. <\/p>\n

Google has its own video generation model, Veo, that it unveiled this spring at its annual I\/O developer conference, and which will soon come to YouTube<\/a> Shorts, YouTube\u2019s short-form video format, to let creators generate backgrounds and six-second clips.<\/p>\n

Aside from tech-related hurdles, OpenAI has appeared to cede vaulable partnership ground to video generation challengers in recent months. Earlier this month, Runway signed a deal with Lionsgate, the studio behind the \u201cJohn Wick\u201d franchise, to train a custom video model on Lionsgate\u2019s movie catalog. Roughly a week later, Stability, which is developing its own set of video generation models, recruited<\/a> \u201cAvatar,\u201d \u201cTerminator\u201d and \u201cTitanic\u201d director James Cameron to its board.<\/p>\n

OpenAI was said<\/a> to be meeting with filmmakers and Hollywood studios earlier this year to demo Sora \u2014 ex-CTO Mira Murati attended<\/a> Cannes \u2014 and the company has teamed up with a number of independent directors<\/a> and some brands<\/a> to showcase the system\u2019s capabilities. <\/p>\n

However, OpenAI has yet to announce a long-term collaboration with a major production house.<\/p>\n

Brooks \u2014 who, in a curious turn of events, is actually returning <\/em>to Google, having once worked on the company\u2019s Pixel phones \u2014 is the latest in a string of high-profile resignations from OpenAI.<\/p>\n

CTO Mira Murati, chief research officer Bob McGrew, and research VP Barret Zoph\u00a0announced\u00a0their departures in late September. Prominent research scientist Andrej Karpathy\u00a0left\u00a0OpenAI in February; months later, OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever quit, along with ex-safety leader\u00a0Jan Leike. In August, co-founder\u00a0John Schulman\u00a0said he would leave OpenAI. And Greg Brockman, the company\u2019s president, is on sabbatical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n