Overview
- OpenAI said it will remove the Sora video generator from its app and from external interfaces, fully ending the project and its public access.
- The company framed the move as a refocus driven by rising demand for computing power, and sources told the Wall Street Journal and Reuters that Sora tied up capacity needed elsewhere.
- OpenAI will redeploy the Sora team to simulate real environments with a new emphasis on robotics.
- The shutdown unwinds a 2025 arrangement in which Disney planned to invest about $1 billion and license Disney, Marvel and Star Wars brands for Sora‑made videos.
- Sora could turn text prompts into photoreal video, but rapid growth, free‑use quotas, and misuse risks raised cost and safety concerns that leaders had flagged in 2025.