How to get Sora app invite codes for OpenAI's viral AI video creator (www.cnbc.com)

OpenAI launched Sora, a short-form AI video creation app, this week — but access is gated by invite codes and currently limited to iPhone users in the U.S. and Canada. To try it, download Sora from the App Store (iOS 18.0+), sign in with your OpenAI account, tap “Notify me when access opens,” and enter an access code on the prompt screen. OpenAI is prioritizing paid ChatGPT Pro subscribers for early access and says wider regional rollout is coming. Sora lets users generate short videos from text or images, cameo as characters, remix other posts, and share creations to an in-app feed. It’s powered by Sora 2.0 — an updated video model OpenAI describes as more physically accurate, realistic, and controllable than its predecessor — which could materially lower the barrier to high-quality generative video. For the AI/ML community this marks a notable consumer-facing push of video synthesis tech: it demonstrates improved controllability and realism at scale but also raises implications for moderation, provenance, and creative workflows as such tools become widely available.