OpenAI just gave up on Sora and its billion-dollar Disney deal
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OpenAI has discontinued Sora, its video generation tool (AI that creates videos from text descriptions), along with the standalone app and developer API access that launched in late 2024. This shutdown affects a major licensing deal with Disney announced just months earlier, in which Disney had agreed to invest $1 billion in OpenAI.
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/899850/openai-sora-ai-chatgpt
First tracked: March 24, 2026 at 08:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 95%