Artificial Intelligence

Sora App Shuts Down

The Sora app is shutting down, with the team promising more details on data preservation and timelines soon.

Daniel Singer

By Daniel Singer, Editor, StartupHub.ai

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Sora App Shuts Down

In brief

  1. 1The Sora app is ceasing operations.
  2. 2The team is preparing to share details on data preservation and timelines.
  3. 3Community contributions to Sora are acknowledged.

The Sora app is shutting down, marking an end for the creative platform. The Sora Team announced the closure, expressing gratitude to its user base.

Users who created, shared, and built communities around the app were thanked for their contributions. The team acknowledged that this news will be disappointing for many.

Future Plans

Further information regarding timelines for the app and its API is forthcoming. Details on how users can preserve their work are also expected soon.

X.com user "shirish" is dropping insider knowledge on the event. He says the closure was attributed to runaway costs of operating the viral app.

"Each 10-second video cost them around $1.30 to make." He goes on to explain the startup was burning $10-15 million daily on operating the app, and that the GPU resources will be diverted to ChatGPT and Codex inference demands.

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shirish also claims the Disney deal with OpenAI fell through.

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Daniel Singer

Written by

Daniel Singer

Editor, StartupHub.ai

Daniel Singer is the editor of StartupHub.ai, a technology expert and thought leader on AI and its applications across sectors, from fintech and healthcare to developer tooling and consumer software. He writes and tests the tools covered here thoroughly and regularly, and built StartupHub.ai to give founders, operators and buyers a clearer read on what they are actually being sold.

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