The only video generation tools showing any real progress or promise are world model-based. That's probably why they did this: either to refocus on coding/cowork type tools (less likely) or to devote that money and compute to building their answer to stuff like Project Genie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxkGdX4WIBE

Couldn't make it work at taking actual directions huh?

Good riddance. Less slop machines the better.

"Sora, generate a video of Mickey Mouse beating up Sam Altman."

Let's be frank, this was probably too fucking expensive to run

we hardly knew ye

an official post

> 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 preserving your work. – The Sora Team

(https://x.com/soraofficialapp/status/2036546752535470382)

They need the GPU cycles to help target children to bomb for their new partnership with the US military.

Sora was good but Gemini is so, so much better. And Seedance is on another dimension. But to be honest I'm shocked that they gave up on AI video. I wonder what the cause of that was?

The press release reads alike OpenAI slop.