One of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, has left for Google.
Tim Brooks, who was heading development on Sora with William Peebles, announced in a post on X this evening that he’ll be joining Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research division, to work on video generation and “world simulators.”
“I had an amazing two years at OpenAI making Sora,” he said. Thank you to all the passionate and kind people I worked with. Excited for the next chapter!”
The news 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 in the generative AI video space. According to The Information, the original system, revealed in February, took more than 10 minutes to make a 1-minute clip. OpenAI is in the process of training an improved Sora that could quickly make clips, per the publication’s report.
