Reason Behind Sora Shutdown: Sam Altman tells tech journalist Laurie Segall’s show Mostly Human why he ultimately had to shut down Sora. The company recently announced the closure of Sora, a text-to-video creation tool launched six months ago. Now the CEO of OpenAI has also explained the reason for this.
Why was Sora closed?
Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s focus and need was to apply its computing and product capabilities to the next generation of automated researchers and companies. For this reason the decision was taken to close Sora. He also said that I love Sora and generated videos and I also love our partnership with Disney. We are trying our best to work with them to find a way where they can still do something great and we can help them do it.
Felt really bad – Sam Altman
Altman The first thing Disney’s new CEO Josh said to me was that I felt terrible when I heard it. He said I understand what you are saying. But it always hurts to disappoint a partner, users, or team, even though they are doing a great job.
There was no such expectation six months ago
Altman explained plans to integrate Sora into ChatGPT. He said that this feature could create addictive behavior in people, just like social media platforms keep users engaged for a long time. Altman also said that I would not have expected three or six months ago that we would be at this stage today, where once again something very big and important is going to happen with the next generation of models and the agents who run with them.
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