OpenAI is winding down Sora, the video generation app it launched to much fanfare last year that signaled a bigger push into creative tools and social media.
OpenAI is shuttering the standalone app to focus on other priorities, the company said on Tuesday.
“As we focus and compute demand grows, the Sora research team continues to focus on world simulation research to advance robotics that will help people solve real-world, physical tasks,” an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement.
The company added it needed to make trade-offs on products that have high compute costs.
Sora, OpenAI’s first standalone app after ChatGPT, rose