Toys”R”Us Studios and Native Foreign Use OpenAI’s Sora to Narrate the Origin Story of Beloved Toy”R”Us® Brand

The legendary Toys"R"Us brand jumped ahead of the curve by creating the first-ever brand film utilising OpenAI's new text-to-video engine, Sora.
The trend of making movies with AI started several years before OpenAI's Sora was revealed. The first AI-generated short film, "Sunspring," authored by an AI system named Benjamin, premiered at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival in 2023. This historic event paved the stage for more ambitious efforts, such as "The Frost," a 12-minute video in which DALL-E 2 created every shot. Following these pioneering efforts, numerous additional businesses joined the AI filmmaking space, including Runway's Gen-2 model, Stability AI's Stable Video Diffusion, Pika Labs, Meta (via its Make-A-Video tool), and Google (via Lumiere). These previous attempts revealed AI's promise in filmmaking, paving the way for more complex systems like as Sora to develop. The legendary Toys"R"Us brand jumped ahead of the curv
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Anshika Mathews
Anshika is the Senior Content Strategist for AIM Research. She holds a keen interest in technology and related policy-making and its impact on society. She can be reached at anshika.mathews@aimresearch.co
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