OpenAI has announced that it's 'saying goodbye' to Sora, the social media platform that featured exclusively AI-generated videos.
“To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” the company said in a statement on Tuesday. “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 preserving your work.” The original Sora model was made available to ChatGPT Pro and ChatGPT Plus users in the U.S. and Canada back in December 2025 — introducing a text-to-video model that could generate moving images based on user prompts, ranging from stylistic animations to photorealistic “footage.” The following September, the company launched a standalone app offering users a -style social media feed with nothing but artificially generated content. Videos appeared in a user’s feed, and could liked and remixed by others on the platform. The new app quickly became the most-downloaded in the iOS App Store’s Photo and Video category. As users were wowed by OpenAI‘s latest AI video generation model’s realistic images and physics, it ran into Then, the Walt Disney Co. announced in December that it had struck a three-year deal with OpenAI to bring its iconic characters to Sora — licensing more than 200 of its characters for use in AI video and agreeing to invest $1 billion in OpenAI.. “As the nascent AI field advances rapidly, we respect OpenAI’s decision to exit the video generation business and to shift its priorities elsewhere,” a Disney spokeswoman said.that while Sora will be discontinued in the consumer app and API, the Sora research team will continued to “focus on world simulation research to advance robotics that will help people solve real-world, physical tasks.”Nicholas Brendon, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Star, Dies at 54 Jon Bernthal’s ‘Punisher’ TV Special Titled ‘One Last Kill’ and Sets May Release Date, One Week After ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 FinaleFree People Is Giving Away $50 Promo Codes With Their Latest Spring Deal — Here's How You Can Score Yours
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