What really happened to OpenAI’s AI video tool Sora? Just six months after a splashy launch, OpenAI abruptly shut it down—leading to wild speculation about data privacy. But a new investigation by The Wall Street Journal reveals the real story: Sora was a money pit, costing nearly $1 million a day to run while user numbers collapsed from 1 million to under 500,000.
In this video, we break down:
Why Sora’s massive compute costs became unsustainable
How Anthropic quietly gained ground with Claude Code while OpenAI was distracted
The shocking moment Disney learned their $1 billion partnership was dead—less than an hour before the public
We’ll also explain CEO Sam Altman’s strategic decision to kill the product, free up AI chips, and refocus OpenAI in the high-stakes AI race.
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