sora

American  

[sawr-uh, sohr-uh] / ˈsɔr ə, ˈsoʊr ə /

noun

1. a small, short-billed rail, Porzana carolina, of marshy areas of North America.

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sora British  

/ ˈsɔːrə /

noun

1. a North American rail, Porzana carolina, with a greyish-brown plumage and yellow bill

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Etymology

Origin of sora

An Americanism dating back to 1695–1705; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

In September, OpenAI released its Sora video-generation app, which also achieved 1 million users in five days.

From MarketWatch

New features such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT Pulse, Sora and web browser could help scale its business, but AI monetization is less of a concern for Google, which has business segments spanning search, cloud computing, Android and enterprise software.

From MarketWatch

Some of them had been produced using OpenAI's video generation tool Sora, the newspaper said this month.

From Barron's

The deluge of AI-generated images and videos clogging social media feeds reached such levels that the launch of OpenAI's Sora 2 text-to-video app in October prompted headlines asking, "Is it the end of civilisation as we know it?"

From Barron's

A federal judge has temporarily blocked OpenAI’s use of several monikers, including “Cameos” and “CameoVideo,” for elements of its Sora artificial intelligence video generation products and marketing.

From Los Angeles Times