1. Night time shell

One of my highlights is a crab walking along a beach. Seemingly ordinary but the shell of the crab is an incandescent lightbulb — and it is shining light in the darker scene.

This was shared by Sora engineer Aditya Ramesh with the prompt: “nighttime footage of a hermit crab using an incandescent lightbulb as its shell”.

2. Floral tiger

Connor Holmes, systems lead on the Sora project, shared a breathtaking clip of a floral tiger breaking apart into petals then reforming. It is an example of how well Sora is able to handle complex motion and scattering — something Holmes says they are looking to expand.

3. Making Minecraft

Soon you won’t even be able to tell whether that Minecraft demo on YouTube is real or AI generated as Sora seems well adept at generating fake footage of the block world. 

This clip is from Tim Brooks from the OpenAI Sora team and made with the prompt: “Minecraft with the most gorgeous high res 8k texture pack ever”.

4. Making multiple clips

One of the most remarkable abilities the OpenAI team has showcased with Sora is its ability to generated multiple well formed clips at the same time. 

Bill Peebles, working on AGI and Sora at OpenAI generated an example and said: “This is a single video sample from Sora. We didn’t stitch this together; Sora decided it wanted to have five different viewpoints all at once!” 

Prompting one commentor on X to joke “Is Sora actually GPT-5 in disguise?”

5. Couple on the beach as shark says hi

Finally a video ripe for a sound effect, maybe generated by ElevenLabs, is a clip of a couple having fun on the beach as a shark jumps out to say hi. 

What is remarkable about the clip from Tim Brooks is the woman turning her head laughing just as the Shark appears. Realism isn’t as great as others and neither is motion but there is something remarkable about it regardless of its issues.