- Free users can now generate 15-second Sora 2 videos
- Professional users can generate 25 seconds and have access to the Storyboard, allowing multiple scenes to be merged
- OpenAI launched Sora 2 earlier this month, enabling incredibly impressive AI-generated video.
OpenAI has just announced a new update to its market-leading AI video generation tool, Sora 2, and social media scrolling is going to get even harder to tell real from fake.
On X, the official OpenAI account shared news of “2 Sora 2 updates”, and the two new upgrades give users even more power when creating AI-generated videos.
The first and most newsworthy update is the new ability for all users to generate videos up to 15 seconds long on the Sora 2 app or on the web. Previously, the longest videos you could generate with the tool were around 10 seconds.
Professional users who pay a monthly subscription of $200/£200 for ChatGPT and all other high-end OpenAI tools will be able to generate 25 seconds of video with Sora 2 – a big increase from the previous limit.
The second feature announced today for Pro users is the arrival of Sora’s Storyboard tool, which allows users to piece together clips and create impressive AI-generated videos with multiple scenes. OpenAI has not announced when or if this Sora 2 feature will be available to Plus and Free users in the future.
If you live in the United States or Canada, you can try Sora 2 today through the Sora app or at www.sora.com. Those of us in the rest of the world will have to wait patiently before we can participate in the creation of short videos that are beginning to become indistinguishable from reality.
2 updates to Sora 2: – Storyboards are now available on the web for Pro users – All users can now generate videos up to 15 seconds on the app and on the web, Pro users up to 25 seconds on the web pic.twitter.com/iINg7alWGLOctober 16, 2025
Back to reality
I was sick last week with COVID and missed the initial launch of Sora 2. While I was sick, I stayed offline, taking a much-needed break from the internet to allow my mind and body to recover.
Returning to work this week, I found social media apps like Instagram and
If we look closely, most of us can still tell what was AI-generated and what is reality, but when you’re scrolling through Instagram, it’s like your mind is playing a trick on you, and your first instinct isn’t to question whether something is real or not.
This week again, I was surprised twice. The first was a video of one of my favorite wrestlers, Roman Reigns, meeting football superstar Kylian Mbappé, and the second was a fake launch of Scotland’s next Adidas jersey. Both times I shared the content with friends before rationalizing and realizing neither was real.
With Sora 2 becoming more powerful by the day and rumors of Google will launch Gemini 3 next week alongside an improved version of Veo, it’s only the beginning and I’m afraid of what’s to come.
Follow TechRadar on Google News And add us as your favorite source to get our news, reviews and expert opinions in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button!
And of course you can too follow TechRadar on TikTok for news, reviews, unboxings in video form and receive regular updates from us on WhatsApp Also.
