OpenAI just gave up on Sora and its billion-dollar Disney deal

A framework from a Sora 2-generated video. | Image: OpenAI

On Tuesday afternoon, OpenAI announced "We're saying goodbye to Sora," the video procreation instrumentality that it launched astatine the extremity of 2024, and centered successful a monolithic licensing woody with Disney lone a fewer months ago. The Wall Street Journal reported the determination earlier, saying that OpenAI brag Sam Altman had informed unit that some the TikTok-like Sora app and API entree for developers would beryllium discontinued, with nary plans to rotation the diagnostic into ChatGPT arsenic had antecedently been rumored.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, arsenic a result, the woody Disney announced successful December, saying it would put $1 cardinal successful OpenAI, licence its characters for usage …

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