OpenAI's SORA: A Potential Behemoth in Computing Power Consumption

OpenAI's new version SORA has resulted in a crash, which has lasted for over two days. Such an MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) indicates a problem with the underlying compute scheduling problme rather than a typical application process issue. At the same time, there are many feedbacks indicating that SORA's pricing is very high.

We will start with the pricing of SORA and explain the underlying principles, then discuss why SORA is currently priced so high(closely related to tokens processing and compute) and how much compute is needed for SORA’s expansion.

Sora's prcing:

OpenAI also provided a more detailed billing table for original video production