Analysis of OpenAI Sora: Data Engineering, Network Architecture, and World Model Implications
OpenAI’s Sora video model unifies image and video data into latent spacetime patches via a VAE, trains on original resolutions with GPT‑4‑expanded captions, employs a Diffusion Transformer backbone for patch‑wise denoising, and demonstrates 3D‑consistent, long‑term world‑model capabilities that hint at a unified computer‑vision paradigm and steps toward AGI.