OpenAI's Sora app is now available on Android (www.engadget.com)

OpenAI has expanded Sora — its text-to-video generative AI app — to Android via the Google Play Store, widening access beyond the invite-only iOS rollout. The app saw explosive early uptake (reported >1 million downloads in under five days), underscoring strong user demand for easy, on-device generation of short video content from text prompts. That scale matters for the AI/ML community because broader distribution accelerates real-world stress‑testing of models, UX patterns, and infrastructure for fast multimodal inference. Rapid adoption has also amplified fraught legal and safety questions. Users quickly produced controversial clips (including disrespectful depictions of Martin Luther King Jr.) and copyrighted manga/anime lookalikes, drawing government scrutiny and prompting debate about misuse. OpenAI was sued by Cameo for alleged copyright infringement, and within days rolled out a "cameo" feature to place existing entities into generated videos — a move that signals both a technical attempt to support likeness insertion and a commercial push toward licensed personas. For practitioners this highlights urgent needs for robust moderation, provenance/watermarking, rights-aware training and inference, and scalable persona-licensing or attribution systems as text-to-video models move mainstream.