Timeline
OpenAI publishes Sora as a world simulator
Sora is shown as a text-conditional video model that can generate about a minute of video.
Suno opens v3 Alpha to Pro and Premier
Suno gives paying members a two-minute v3 Alpha model to test before the public v3 drop.
Suno v3 ships to everyone
Suno calls v3 its first radio-quality model and opens two-minute songs to all users.
Google introduces Veo at I/O
Veo is announced as a 1080p text-to-video model that can run longer than one minute.
VideoFX opens a Veo waitlist
Google Labs launches VideoFX so a text prompt can become a clip, with a US waitlist.
Kuaishou opens Kling testing
Kling is announced as a 1080p, 30 fps model that can generate up to two minutes from text.
Runway releases Gen-3 Alpha
Runway publishes Gen-3 Alpha as a text-to-video model with temporal control.
Sora Turbo goes live on sora.com
OpenAI moves Sora out of research preview for ChatGPT Plus and Pro users.
Google announces Veo 2
Veo 2 lands in VideoFX as Google's next video model, with a wider Labs waitlist.
OpenAI ends the Sora product
OpenAI Help says the Sora web and app experiences were discontinued on 26 April 2026.