OpenAI pulls the plug on Sora, the viral AI video app that sparked deepfake concerns

With OpenAI’s Sora gone, who will take up the AI video mantle?

Sora created whole cottage industries and let millions of people create videos at will, but now there’s a void to be filled.

Google's Massive AI Win: OpenAI Gives Up on Video

Key PointsOpenAI shut down its Sora AI video app, citing a strategic shift toward enterprise tools and coding products ahead of a potential IPO.The closure ended a $1 billion Disney partnership that would have brought over 200 licensed characters to Sora, with Disney stating it respects OpenAI's decision to exit the video generation business.Google's Veo 3.1 is now the dominant AI video platform at scale, integrated across YouTube Shorts, Google…

OpenAI thought it could own AI videos. The reality was too expensive

Six months and millions of dollars down the drain, OpenAI is pulling the plug on what it once called “the most powerful imagination engine ever built.”

OpenAI pulls the plug on Sora app

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral last fall as a place to share short-form videos generated by artificial intelligence but also raised alarms in Hollywood and elsewhere.

OpenAI pulls plug on Sora app

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral last fall as a place to share short-form videos generated by artificial intelligence but also raised alarms in Hollywood and elsewhere.

OpenAI pulls plug on video app Sora

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral last fall as a place to share short-form videos generated by artificial intelligence but also raised alarms in Hollywood and elsewhere.