Sora shutdown forces AI film Critterz to miss Cannes The highly anticipated animated feature Critterz, which was to be the first mainstream commercial film created through a generative AI pipeline, failed to secure its planned in-festival premiere at Cannes this week. While producers from AGC International, Vertigo Films, and Native Foreign screened early footage to…
A week after OpenAI said it would shutter its artificial intelligence video generator, Sora, rival tools like Kling AI and RunwayML are already gaining ground. Kling AI, a video generator app owned by China’s Kuaishou Technology, saw global weekly active users jump 4% to an average of 2.6 million last week from the prior week,…
OpenAI Letting Go of Sora Short-Form AI Video Platform By John K. Waters 03/31/26 OpenAI is reportedly getting rid of Sora, its generative AI model that creates short video clips from text prompts, images, or existing video inputs. The move upends the company’s December partnership with The Walt Disney Company, touted as a test case…
OpenAI’s decision to discontinue Sora, its AI-driven video generation platform, highlights a shift in the company’s strategic focus. Matt Wolfe explains that Sora’s high computational demands and limited scalability made it difficult to sustain alongside OpenAI’s broader objectives. By retiring Sora and its APIs, OpenAI is reallocating resources to more widely adopted offerings like ChatGPT…
In a dramatic U-turn, OpenAI Group PBC has announced it’s discontinuing its vaunted Sora AI video application, just months after rolling out a massive update. The decision comes in the wake of declining interest in the generative artificial intelligence video platform, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Co-founder and Chief Executive Sam…
