OpenAI is planning to discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched in late 2024. Disney has ended its partnership for Sora.

As part of the blockbuster deal, Disney also pledged a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI — but now, that partnership is over. “As the nascent AI field advances rapidly, w

OpenAI said Tuesday it would shut down its Sora AI visualization tool. Disney had planned to invest $1 billion in the company to license its characters to the video platform.

OpenAI said Tuesday that it will discontinue the company's Sora app, which let users create AI-generated videos.

OpenAI’s short-form video app Sora was meant to showcase the future of AI-generated content. Just six months after going viral, it’s already being shut down. Sora launched in late 2025 as a text-to-video platform that allowed users to generate short clips,

OpenAI said Tuesday that it would shut down its artificial intelligence video generation app Sora barely six months after its launch, as the company shifts toward business tools ahead of a potential stock market debut.

Though the underlying Sora 2 video- and audio-generation model is scarily impressive, there was not sustained interest in an AI-only social feed.

OpenAI plans to discontinue its Sora AI video generator six months after the high-profile launch of a standalone app for the service, as the company works to simplify its portfolio of artificial intelligence products.