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OpenAI shutting down video generator Sora
OpenAI cited concerns over deepfakes, nonconsensual images, and server strain as reasons for shutting down Sora, which launched in late 2024 and quickly gained viral popularity.
- On Tuesday, OpenAI announced it will shut down its AI-powered video generator app Sora, with The Sora Team stating it will share timelines for the app and API along with details on preserving user work.
- Heavy use of Sora strained OpenAI's servers in recent months, with the app's head saying last November that the firm's graphics processing units are melting; advocacy groups also warned the app could enable nonconsensual images and deepfakes.
- Users generated videos featuring deceased celebrities Robin Williams and Stephen Hawking, with social media flooded with compromising scenarios of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman; the app dominated the iOS App Store for three weeks before interest dropped after public access.
- The fate of OpenAI's three-month-old Disney partnership remains unclear following the shutdown, which precedes the company's planned initial public offering later this year; Sora now joins defunct video ventures like Quibi and Meta's Lasso.
- Despite a $1 billion Disney investment and access to more than 200 characters from Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars, Sora's business model could not sustain operations, contrasting with platforms like Clubhouse and BeReal that retained users despite fading early hype.
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The Northern Echo
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Why OpenAI is ditching Sora, its generative video app
OpenAI has decided to scrap Sora, its app that generated videos based on user prompts. The move reveals that the company, once the disruptor-in-chief of the AI world, is now facing something of an identity crisis as it struggles to pick a lane on the busy road to profitability.
The AI video app Sora should compete with Tiktok and Instagram. Now OpenAI has discontinued the application. Why?
Local 3 News
After six months and millions of dollars wasted, OpenAI puts an end to what it once called "the most powerful imagination engine ever built".
OpenAI decided to put an end to Sora its tool that allowed to create videros due to the losses that it was generating
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