#Sora was always a physics engine in disguise. The stated goal from day one: teach AI how the material world works by in...

#Sora was always a physics engine in disguise. The stated goal from day one: teach AI how the material world works by ingesting video at scale. How objects persist, collide, deform, fail. The consumer deepfake playground was a distraction. The robot training data was the mission.The app is now dead. $2M lifetime revenue against a $730B valuation.OpenAI; "The team is "focusing on world simulation research to advance robotics.""Worth flagging: independent research from ByteDance and Tsinghua found Sora never actually learned physics. It learned surface patterns, prioritising colour over shape over motion. Yann LeCun called pixel-prediction-as-world-model "doomed to failure" back in 2024. OpenAI's sudden pivot suggests he may have had a point.The TikTok wrapper is dead. The bet that video is the richest training signal for grounding AI in physical reality is still very much alive. Just without the Mario deepfakes.#OpenAI #Sora #AI #Robotics #MachineLearning #WorldModel