Multiple posts report OpenAI is discontinuing Sora (app, API, and ChatGPT video) as part of cutting “side quests,” reallocating compute toward the next model “Spud” and core agent/coding priorities.
“OpenAI just exited the video generation business entirely. App dead. API dead. No video inside ChatGPT.”
“Breaking: OpenAI is canning Sora (mobile app, API and video capabilities in ChatGPT).”
“Fidji Simo just told OpenAI staff to cut the "side quests." Sora -- dead.”
“OpenAI is killing Sora as a standalone app, its developer version, and video inside ChatGPT.”
“Inside OpenAI, shutting down Sora was widely viewed as a likely first step in the process of culling such side quests.”
“Breaking: OpenAI is canning Sora (mobile app, API and video capabilities in ChatGPT). It’s finished training its latest model, codenamed Spud”
“OpenAI's Sora team is now working on world-models”
“OpenAI renamed its product org to "AGI Deployment"”
Sora made $2.1 million in its entire lifetime.
OpenAI crossed $25 billion in annualized revenue the same month it killed it.
Training and running video generation models is astronomically expensive.
OpenAI is ruthlessly reallocating its GPU resources away from consumer video.
OpenAI is shutting down SORA!
OpenAI just exited the video generation business entirely. App dead. API dead. No video inside ChatGPT.
Breaking: OpenAI is canning Sora (mobile app, API and video capabilities in ChatGPT).
OpenAI is killing Sora as a standalone app, its developer version, and video inside ChatGPT.
Fidji Simo just told OpenAI staff to cut the "side quests." Sora -- dead. The app, the API, the video model, all of it.
OpenAI has officially announced the shutdown of Sora, its highly publicized AI video generation app and API.
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