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Pour one out for Sora, the groundbreaking — but quickly overtaken — video generation app from OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT.

Born Dec. 2024, and baptized by a billion-dollar Disney deal a year later, Sora was axed by OpenAI on Tuesday — and the Disney deal was trashed alongside it.

"We're saying goodbye to the Sora app," the Sora team announced Tuesday via the OpenAI X feed. "To everyone who

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OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app. "We're saying goodbye to Sora," the company wrote in a X post published Tuesday afternoon. For now, OpenAI has yet to say when the app and its related API service would become unavailable. Instead, promising to share those details at a later date.   

"We've decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer app and API. As we focus and compute demand

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• OpenAI announced it is discontinuing its viral video app Sora.
• The company plans to focus on robotics to solve "real-world, physical tasks," a spokesperson said.
• Sora's demise followed its lead staffer's description of the project's economics as "unsustainable."

OpenAI is pulling the