OpenAI: Ends AI video feature “Sora”

OpenAI said it abruptly shut down this week just six months after launching its AI video generator, leaving Hollywood in turmoil. Rachel Metz in bloomberg. Sora allows you to create “AI videos that look just like the real thing”
The text prompts were packaged in a TikTok-style consumer app that allows users to share and comment on posts.

Metz said that the ChatGPT maker and Disney are “dissolving their partnership centered around Sora.” Disney previously agreed to take a $1 billion stake in the startup and license 200 iconic characters to Sora in what some entertainment executives considered a significant deal. In a memo to staff, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is “focused on AI agents and new artificial intelligence models.” This move coincides with the company’s “promotion with OpenAI,” which aims to reduce costs associated with preparations for listing.

“It makes sense for OpenAI to reduce headcount to focus on core products, AI robotics, etc.,” he said. robin wigglesworth in financial times. Generating AI video “consumes enormous amounts of computing power.” By one estimate, a 10-second Sora video cost 2,000 times more than AI text output. That’s “until all of OpenAI’s large-scale data centers are actually completed.” But after the hype when Sora launched in September, its rapid implosion “could turn out to be a moment” that suggests the AI bubble is starting to deflate.

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