OpenAI has announced that it is discontinuing Sora, its AI video generation app and social platform for sharing AI video slop, along with the related API. The company has not shared an exact shutdown date yet, but says more details are coming on the timeline and on how users will be able to preserve their content. OpenAI linked the decision to shifting priorities and rising compute demand, with the Sora research team now focusing on world simulation research tied to its broader robotics efforts. This move also impacts OpenAI’s recent $1 billion partnership with Disney, which included plans to license Disney characters for use in Sora and bring AI generated videos to Disney Plus. With Sora being discontinued, that agreement is also coming to an end. Sora saw strong early attention and briefly reached the top of the US App Store charts, but interest appears to have faded quickly. Its shutdown comes only months after launching at the end of 2024, ending OpenAI’s short lived experiment wit...
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