For a limited time, users will be able to generate videos of over 20 seconds long, and over 50 lower resolution (480p) videos per month.

If you are interested in nurturing your inner filmmaker over the holidays, OpenAI is now giving all its Plus subscribers unlimited access to the AI video generator Sora over the holidays.

Launched earlier this month, Sora is a standalone video generator, that generates footage based on prompts generated by the users, which can be inputted frame-by-frame.

Users with a standard $20-per-month ChatGPT Plus account were previously limited to generating videos up to 20 seconds long and were capped at 50 per month at a lower resolution (480p), or "fewer" than 50 videos at a higher resolution (720p). Otherwise, users needed to put down $200 for a Pro subscription.

"Our GPUs get a little less busy during late December as people take a break from work, so we are giving all plus users unlimited Sora access via the relaxed queue over the holidays!," CEO Sam Altman explained in a post on X.

The news of this excess server capacity comes after Sora got off to a rocky start performance-wise. OpenAI's systems failed to handle the "unexpected demand" for Sora following its debut and temporarily disabled the ability for new users to sign up, meaning many ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers did not get access at launch.

Sora has seen plenty of controversy within its relatively short history, in November, a group of artists leaked OpenAI's Sora video generator online. The group, who called themselves "PR-Puppets", alleged that OpenAI was luring artists into "art washing" and "unpaid beta testing", to falsely portray Sora as "a useful tool for artists."

Though OpenAI's text-to-video tool hit the market first, we could be seeing more comparable tools from the rest of the tech giants by the next holiday season.