On Tuesday, March 24th, OpenAI announced that it would be shutting down their software, Sora Video App permanently, immediately beginning the process to move Sora offline.
By Alex Gallagher
Web Master
Sora Video App, once a very popular generative artificial intelligence tool, recently announced their shutdown, due to OpenAI wanting to focus more on the creation of a “super app,” merging other commonly used generative AI platforms into one final destination. This led to Disney pulling out of their three-year and one billion dollar investment plan into OpenAI. Oddly enough, Disney sent Google, Meta, and Character.AI cease and desist letters in 2025 for character infringement: the exact same reason they entered a deal with OpenAI. Disney’s plan with Sora was to allow fans to generate videos of over 200 Disney characters, even adding a selective amount of these videos onto their streaming platform, Disney+. However, after OpenAI’s shutdown of Sora, this will no longer be a feature. Outside of this, Sora was utilized by users to create AI generated videos based on a prompt—much like other AI tools, but with a focus on videos. While this news may come as a disappointment to some, the overall impact is said to be a net positive for OpenAI, according to CyberNews, as the company was losing an estimated $15 million a day on Sora.
