Goodbye to Sora
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#2I never quite got "why" they made it a separate app. While I'm sure it was fun for a while, this felt like something that had limited staying power as the novelty is what was driving it. People don't really want to switch between video apps for their entertainment and having it be Sora only is too limiting.
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#3Didn't they cut a huge deal with Disney just 3 months ago?
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#4I guess this is a bullish sign OpenAI has hired a lot of PMs from Google!
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#5Unlike, say, Seedance 2.0 (which has yet to come to the West), Sora 2 was more of a tech demo than anything usable:
* It was (assumedly) expensive to run.
* It was not good enough for customers to seriously pay for.
* There were too many content restrictions for it to be fun for most people.
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#6Did they give any reason? Too expensive to keep running? Chinese models surpassing Sora's capabilities?
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#7How much money did they burn on this? And for what? Nothing?
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#8Didn't they cut a huge deal with Disney just 3 months ago? https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/
Wow. OpenAI is the weirdest company in the planet.
I used to think they were pretty clever but with this news and other recent ones (Jony Ive project cancelled, Stargate scaled down significantly, their models inflating token use on purpose) they just seem schizo.
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#9Unlike, say, Seedance 2.0 (which has yet to come to the West), Sora 2 was more of a tech demo than anything usable: * It was (assumedly) expensive to run. * It was not good enough for customers to seriously pay for. * There were too many content restrictions for it to be fun for most people.
I heard Seedance is also full of restrictions now, although the model seems to be better at that sort of “cinematic” look, which might allow it to compete with Veo 3 and the like.
The issue is that Sora ended up getting the short end of the stick: by generating the footage, it became the primary target of complaints. Meanwhile, they were forced to remove the videos, but people simply took those videos and uploaded them to random social media platforms like Twitter, TikTok, or YouTube, which ended up hosting the content while being much less of a target, since the content wasn’t generated there.
Honestly, I think the only way forward will be to wait for local models to become good enough so that you can run something like Sora locally and generate whatever you want.
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#10I assume it was too expensive, because it's really not a bad tool. I used it recently to make my twitter pfp :)