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Sora's closure announced in a confusing edited message. More details on the app and API to follow. Further news suggests they will focus on world models instead and use the released compute for a new "very, very strong" model that "accelerates the economy" coming very soon. Disney cancels deal with OpenAI.

https://x.com/soraofficialapp/status/2036546752535470382?s=20

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Kol Tregaskes 10h ago

More news on the Sora closure and the new LLM.
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2036549192592531960?s=20

Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) on X

OpenAI's Sora team is now working on world-models - they prioritize longer-term world simulation research especially as it pertains to robotics. tl;dr what we know so far: - Sora has been cancelled because they needed the compute for their new LLM - they renamed product

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Kol Tregaskes

After the Sora news the news on the Disney deal cancellation was inevitable.
https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2036546800069353689?s=20

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Disney has cancelled their deal with OpenAI. They planned to invest $1 billion into the company and let Sora have access to AI generate videos of characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars. (Source: https://t.co/9q8u5VtqZE)

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