OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform

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OpenAI said it will discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched in late 2024, without providing a reason for the decision.

“We’re saying goodbye to Sora. 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,” OpenAI’s Sora team said in a statement Tuesday.

The announcement comes just three months after Disney inked a groundbreaking deal with OpenAI. Under the three-year licensing agreement, Sora would have been able to generate user-prompted videos from a set of more than 200 masked, animated or creature characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars. Sora and ChatGPT Images were to generate “fan-inspired” videos with Disney’s licensed characters in early 2026 — with Disney+ adding a curated selections of Sora-generated videos.

Disney has now ended its partnership with OpenAI, which included plans for the media conglomerate to take a $1 billion stake in the artificial-intelligence company led by CEO Sam Altman.

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The second iteration of OpenAI’s Sora, which launched in late September 2025, generated stunningly realistic-looking videos — and raised alarms in Hollywood given the Sora 2 opt-out model requiring IP owners to proactively flag that they wanted their copyrighted works excluded from the system. In November, Japanese content trade group CODA, whose members include animation house Studio Ghibli, issued a letter to OpenAI demanding the AI company stop using their content to train Sora 2.

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