Sora in this case really has nothing to do with the model, as OpenAI hasn't released any specific details about the model, we only know that it's a diffusion model using a transformer architecture and it was trained on videos of different dimensions and lengths, this is just an open source text-to-video.

Seems a bad idea to call it Sora given that it has nothing to do with OpenAI Sora (other than achieving a similar goal). Also a trademark violation probably.

Also just a really bad word to combine with "open". Lots of emphasis necessary on that final "a", lest only the first syllable registers.

I wonder if it would have even been posted, if not for the misleading name.

is this the open source state-of-the-art for video generation?

I imagine it would be the Stable Diffusion Video model.