OpenAI is scrapping the Sora app to chase bigger AI goals

OpenAI is discontinuing Sora, its AI text-to-video generator. Illustration by Thomas Fuller/NurPhoto via Getty Images 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 plug on the Sora app — at least in the current form. The company confirmed it will discontin...