OpenAI shutters AI video generator Sora in abrupt announcement

Tech firm'says goodbye' to Sora, made publicly available in 2024, just six months after its launch of a stand-alone app In an abrupt announcement on Tuesday, OpenAI said it was "saying goodbye" to its AI video generator Sora. The move comes just six months after the company's splashy launch of a stand-alone app with which people could make and share hyper-realistic AI videos in a scrolling social feed. "To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you," the company wrote in a post on X . "What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing." OpenAI first made Sora publicly available in late 2024, but it wasn't until the company launched Sora 2 and its stand-alone app last September that the video generator reached mainstream attention.