The slop stops here. In frightening news for slutty anthropomorphic fruit, OpenAI announced today that it is shutting down Sora, its video-creation platform. The artificial-intelligence company announced the news over X in a tweet that reads, “We’re saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you: What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing.” The Sora team wrote that it will share further details, like timelines for the app and API, “soon.” The first generation of Sora was released to the public in February 2024, and the second generation debuted just six months ago in September 2025.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, CEO Sam Altman broke the news to staff on Tuesday, announcing the end of Sora’s consumer-facing app, its app for developers, and all Sora integration in ChatGPT. WSJ reports the move is aligned with Altman’s shift in focus for the company toward “prioritizing longer-term bets such as robotics.”
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The news of Sora’s demise also means that Disney is reportedly exiting its deal with OpenAI. In December, the Mouse House pledged to invest $1 billion in OpenAI and entered a three-year licensing agreement for allowing over 200 Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars characters’ likenesses to be used in Sora, quelling some of the text-to-video app’s brushups with copyright law. The deal was troubling to creatives in the industry with the president of the Animation Guild telling Vulture at the time, “Our members, the artists, technicians, and animators who created these iconic characters, are not being included in the conversation in terms of licensing compensation.”
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“As the nascent AI field advances rapidly, we respect OpenAI’s decision to exit the video generation business and to shift its priorities elsewhere,” a spokesperson for Disney wrote in a statement. The company will “continue to engage with AI platforms to find new ways to meet fans where they are while responsibly embracing new technologies that respect IP and the rights of creators.”
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