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Sora, OpenAI's generative video app, is history. Here's what that means for the firm's future

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Company also paused its erotic chatbot and some shopping features as it shifts priorities

OpenAI announced this week it was scrapping Sora, its generative video app. The move reveals that the company, once the disruptor-in-chief of the AI world, is now facing something of an identity crisis as it struggles to pick a lane on the busy road to profitability. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)

Just six months ago, OpenAI was touting the latest version of its generative AI video model Sora as "the beginning of a completely new era" for creators, one it said would bring "a lot of joy, creativity and connection to the world."

But Sora — a platform that could generate breathtaking videos of the long-extinct Woolly mammoth just as easily as it could whip up a shampoo ad starring Hitler — was born to a different company than the one that exists today.

OpenAI decided this week to shut it down, citing a need to focus on other priorities. It also scaled back some shopping features in ChatGPT and paused development of the much-maligned "erotic chatbot" it had promised for sexually explicit conversation.

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