OpenAI Pulls The Plug On Sora
OpenAI’s ambitious attempt to turn AI videos into a social phenomenon has come to an abrupt end. The AI giant is shutting down its standalone text-to-video app Sora. So, what exactly went wrong with OpenAI’s consumer video play?
The Compute Conundrum: Industry experts point out that the extreme GPU requirements of the app created the worst revenue-to-resource ratio in the AI sector. For OpenAI, Sora’s unit economics made no sense. On top of this, downloads…

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