OpenAI’s Identity Crisis

OpenAI announced shutdown of Sora, openAI said it was shutting down the Sora app and terminating public access to its video-generating technology.

Sora required high compute demand, generating videos requires more compute than generating text, cited by OpenAI as a key factor.

Forbes estimate estimated daily operating costs in the millions, forbes estimated Sora might be costing OpenAI millions of dollars daily.

Bill Peebles said Sora's economics were completely unsustainable, bill Peebles, who leads Sora, said the economics were 'completely unsustainable'.

Sora launched in September and climbed to top of App Store, openAI launched the Sora app in September and it quickly reached the top of the App Store.