Peebles: Video AI progressed from GPT-1 to GPT-3.5 equivalent in 18 months
Bill Peebles · Sam Altman on Sora, Social Media, The Future of AI, and More · Oct 10, 2025 · at 7:00
OpenAI Sora lead Bill Peebles compares the development velocity of text LLMs against video generation models.
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“GPT-ONE really was Sora-ONE for this modality. And the progress we've made kind of in the last 18 months getting to this 3.5 moment, right, is really compressed compared to how long it took to go from GPT-ONE to 3.5 in the language domain.”
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