OpenAI has announced that it is discontinuing its Sora service, which creates videos using AI and had become quite popular.
Sora was opened for public use only a few months ago, but it has garnered criticism from copyright owners who have accused it of stealing their characters for AI model training material. At the same time, OpenAI has increasingly found itself as an underdog in the AI race, where Google's Gemini is growing rapidly and another competitor, Anthropic, is luring developers to its Claude Code.
So for OpenAI, it's partly about concentrating resources on the company's most important products - which Sora clearly was not among. The company confirmed Sora's discontinuation in its social media post (link leads to X/Twitter).
At the same time, media giant Disney has decided to discontinue the cooperation with OpenAI announced in December. The purpose of the cooperation was specifically to focus on using the technologies behind Sora in the production of Disney's films and series.
According to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the matter (paywall), OpenAI also plans to cut other branches and will apparently focus specifically on developing its text-based generative AI.
So for OpenAI, it's partly about concentrating resources on the company's most important products - which Sora clearly was not among. The company confirmed Sora's discontinuation in its social media post (link leads to X/Twitter).
At the same time, media giant Disney has decided to discontinue the cooperation with OpenAI announced in December. The purpose of the cooperation was specifically to focus on using the technologies behind Sora in the production of Disney's films and series.
According to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the matter (paywall), OpenAI also plans to cut other branches and will apparently focus specifically on developing its text-based generative AI.
