OpenAI is planning to discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched in late 2024. Disney has ended its partnership for Sora.

Disney’s much heralded $1 billion investment in Open AI is over as the Sam Altman-led tech giant will be shuttering its standalone Sora text-to-video app “The deal is not moving forward,” an insider tells Deadline of the agreement then House of Mouse CEO Bob Iger reached last year with Altman.

In a surprising announcement, OpenAI said Tuesday it will soon shut down its Sora AI video generation app. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built a community around it: thank you.

Remember Sora? Developed by the powerhouse behind ChatGPT, Sora’s AI-generated videos became instant social media sensations and spawned nightmares in Hollywood. But while the Sora demo reel blew away viewers back in February 2024 (a lifetime ago in the world of AI),

OpenAI is bidding goodbye to Sora as the tech giant revealed on Tuesday that it would shut the video platform down. "We're saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you.

OpenAI has surprisingly announced it is shutting down Sora, its high-profile AI video generation app and model. According to a company statement on X, the team is “saying goodbye” to the standalone platform to refocus its resources elsewhere.

In a surprise move, OpenAI will shut down its Sora AI video app, just months after it was first launched. "We're saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,

Sam Altman’s OpenAI has shut down its controversial video generation app Sora just months after it launched, the company announced Tuesday. As a result, Disney has exited the $1 billion investment deal it made last year with OpenAI that would have allowed Sora to license Disney-owned characters and content.