OpenAI shutters short-form video app Sora as company reels in costs
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OpenAI is shutting down its short-form video app Sora six months after launch and says it will share timelines and details to help users preserve their work. Sora went viral early, hitting one million downloads in under five days, but user momentum later faded. OpenAI says it is reining in costs, shelving ambitious projects, and refocusing on high-productivity and enterprise use cases as it prepares for a potential IPO; a proposed $1 billion Disney investment tied to Sora never closed. The company is consolidating apps and shifting away from building datacenters toward buying cloud capacity to improve execution and control spending.
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