Limited Release Sora is finally here — sort of. OpenAI announced today that it would publicly release its much-hyped video generation AI tool to users in certain countries, after being in closed beta for nearly a year since it was first unveiled. According to a livestream on its YouTube channel hosted by CEO Sam Altman and several of the startup's other leaders and research scientists, Sora will be open to use in the US and to "most countries internationally" — but will remain unavailable in Europe and the UK. Those are pretty significant snubs. "We're going to try our hardest […]