When Sora launched in September, it quickly exceeded one million downloads and later announced a partnership with Disney. Reuters reports that Disney was caught off guard by OpenAI’s announcement; they had agreed to invest $1 billion in Sora, but the deal hadn’t yet closed. Apparently OpenAI wants to devote its time to other areas, and the app required too many computational resources.
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