Discussion

• @soraofficialapp Sora on x

  We're saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We'll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on

• @jachiam0 Joshua Achiam on x

  When we get up to bat at OpenAI we take huge swings. Some of them don't work out. But what extraordinary work from the Sora team as pioneers in this space. Massive kudos to the team for trying this out and making it so good.

• @iatalkspace Abubakar on x

  Didn't expect OpenAI to bow out of AI video creation so early. But AI video probably consumes a lot of computing resources that could be better allocated to other products. Regardless, it's now ceding the market to Adobe, Google, RunwayML, Kling AI, et al. https://www.wsj.com/...

• @film_girl Christina Warren on x

  rip to that one fun week before the copyright realities caught up with the shit posting

• @max_spero_ Max Spero on x

  RIP the two use cases, fake ring doorbell videos and iran war misinformation videos

• @apples_jimmy @apples_jimmy on x

  damn not even having it in ChatGPT ? Hard to compete with the likes of seedance 2 while burning compute. Better give us some amazing new models to make up for it. [image]

• @taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x

  Huge blow to the IG fetish communities who have been using it to make non stop videos of men in wet jeans and hyper pregnant women

• @theprimeagen @theprimeagen on x

  Good. Sora accelerated one of the worst aspects of the new AI economy. Absolutely horrible thing for OpenAI to create

• @_simonsmith Simon Smith on x

  Evidence that Fidji is serious about focus. Dedicated Sora app is going away. Sora almost certainly coming to ChatGPT. Hopefully this includes ChatGPT Enterprise, since we already have Veo in Gemini for Workspace.

• @avotoast @avotoast on x

  this is basically cost cutting the image/video models are massive token black holes

• @charleswlogan Charles Logan on bluesky

  Let's do Meta's glasses next 🙏🏻 [embedded post]

• @elkmovie Michael Love on bluesky

  So basically OpenAI is now desperately trying to copy the one category of LLM tool that seems to have a decent sized potential market, but for which their main competitor has now gotten to a point where they're a default choice that customers have to be actively lured away from? …

• @jamespmcleod.ca James McLeod on bluesky

  A lot of people wrote dumb takes about how Sora was the future of social media and stuff.  [embedded post]

• @mgsiegler.com M.G. Siegler on bluesky

  Well, so much for Bob Iger's last deal I guess! [embedded post]

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky

  This was one of my 2026 predictions.  The Sora launch was a disaster from start to finish, and OpenAI is smart to wind it down [embedded post]

• @jonathanpierce Jonathan Pierce on bluesky

  the money faucet is losing water pressure fast [embedded post]

• @nitishpahwa.com Nitish Pahwa on bluesky

  The Sora cancellation “is one of a number of steps OpenAI is taking to refocus on business and coding functions ahead of a potential initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter of this year.”  —  so ... yeah, OpenAI is definitely feeling the cash pinch: www.wsj.com/tech…

• @radiodeadair.com Nash on bluesky

  But but but I thought it was going to make all the movies from now on you said YOU SAID

• @davelee.me Dave Lee on bluesky

  The problem was, Sora was only fun when you were stealing www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

• @dmgreene Dan Greene on bluesky

  Cause of death: money and litigation pit.  And thank goodness too.

• @peark.es George Pearkes on bluesky

  Claude Code killed Sora, we absolutely love to see it

• r/movies r on reddit

  Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

• r/technology r on reddit

  OpenAI Set to Discontinue Sora Video Platform App

• r/BetterOffline r on reddit

  OpenAI Set to Discontinue Sora Video Platform App

• r/OpenAI r on reddit

  OPENAI TO DISCONTINUE SORA !!

• @peark.es George Pearkes on bluesky

  Tell me, is it good when your CEO stops focusing on product to focus on finding baggies errr I mean “raising capital”.  —  www.theinformation.com/articles/ ope...  [image]

• @edzitron.com Ed Zitron on bluesky

  Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*.  This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate  —  www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...  www.theinformation.com/…

• @soraofficialapp Sora on x

  We're saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We'll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on

• @jbillinson Josh Billinson on x

  what did people make with sora that mattered

• @andymasley Andy Masley on x

  Sora was actually one of my very favorite AI products so I'm sad to see it go.

• @dbreunig Drew Breunig on x

  I am not surprised Sora's engagement declined. These tools generally follow a similar curve. My litmus test remains true: if something is impressive solely because an AI achieved it, it will spike before a rapid decline. https://www.dbreunig.com/... [image]

• @clementdelangue Clem on x

  Would be so cool if OpenAI open-sourced Sora as they're shutting down the app! Would be an amazing contribution to the field and make all the efforts of the teams working on it even more meaningful!

• @edzitron.com Ed Zitron on bluesky

  Oh look I was right.  Oh well, just $1 billion that never gets wired to anybody after an endless media hype cycle about the death of hollywood.  Pobody's Nerfect!  I'm sure everybody who wrote scary stories about Sora 2 destroying Hollywood will apologize  —  www.hollywoodreporte…

• r/wallstreetbets r on reddit

  Disney Exits OpenAI $1 Billion Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

• r/kindafunny r on reddit

  Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

• r/BetterOffline r on reddit

  Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

• r/television r on reddit

  Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

• r/RedLetterMedia r on reddit

  Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

• r/boxoffice r on reddit

  Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

• r/MediaMergers r on reddit

  Disney exits OpenAI deal after AI giant shutters Sora

• r/TheBigPicture r on reddit

  Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

• r/blankies r on reddit

  Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

• r/aiwars r on reddit

  OpenAI Scraps Sora App

• r/PoliticalOptimism r on reddit

  OpenAI Set to Discontinue Sora Video Platform App

• @dseetharaman Deepa Seetharaman on x

  Disney & OpenAI teams were working together on their Sora-related project as recently as Monday evening, per reporting from @DawnC331. Later that night, OpenAI told Disney about the plan to drop Sora. update forthcoming.

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on x

  I feel like we should all be a little concerned/outraged that there was allegedly a $1 billion transaction between two parties that just *didn't happen* despite multiple stories (and even a deep dive “about how the deal came together) saying otherwise? Disney saw a stock bump!

• @bwags Bobby Wagner on x

  Hi my name is Bob Iger, legendary business leader and CEO of Disney, and this is the product I went all in on less than a year ago!

• r/BetterOffline r on reddit

  OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform

• r/Fauxmoi r on reddit

  OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform

• r/technology r on reddit

  OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform

• @emollick Ethan Mollick on x

  All the AI labs are exploring the opportunity space for LLMs. Anthropic has always been very focused and OpenAI more prone to testing, and abandoning, concepts (GPT Store, Sora, etc.). Google sort of does everything at once. It is unclear which strategy will be best in the end.

• @daniel_rubino Daniel Rubino on x

  Sora shutting down is certainly an unexpected move.  It showed up, terrified Hollywood (and married Disney), burned a mountain of GPUs, and then Irish-exited like it had somewhere better to be.  Won't miss it, but you can't say it didn't leave a dent.  Just a big distraction good…

• @pritopian Priyaa on x

  Now's a good time for anyone bought into the idea that somehow 3 labs will supply all creative intelligence. No one must dare think of model concentration risks. https://x.com/...

• @dseetharaman Deepa Seetharaman on x

  Huh - just yesterday (March 23) OpenAI published a blog about safety standards for Sora. And today they scrap the feature completely. https://openai.com/...

• r/TheOwlHouse r on reddit

  Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

• r/FilmIndustryLA r on reddit

  RIP Sora

• @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x

  Disney licensed Mickey Mouse to OpenAI for three months and got nothing. For context, you can license Mickey Mouse on a birthday cake for $400 and at least you get cake.

• @btibor91 Tibor Blaho on x

  Sam Altman gave up direct control of OpenAI's safety and security teams, moving safety under CRO Mark Chen and security under president Greg Brockman, so he can focus on raising money, supply chains and building data centers at a massive scale OpenAI finished pretraining its

• @scaling01 @scaling01 on x

  “OpenAI completed initial development of its next major AI model, codenamed Spud” GPT-5.5

• @angaisb_ Angel on x

  OpenAI's AGI Deployment team goes hard

• @deredleritt3r Prinz on x

  New “very strong” OpenAI model, with ability to “accelerate the economy”, will be released in a few weeks. Altman: things moving faster than many expected. OpenAI's product deployment team renamed to “AGI Deployment”.