Sora getting shutdown means that Open AI was and still is struggling to find a use case for generalized AI applications. Meanwhile Anthropic and Google are zeroing in on practical applications for AI and taking market share.

This is mirroring the Internet bubble. Everyone rushed in with capital and over built a bunch of useless stuff. The bubble burst the cool stuff survived and everyone learned how to use the new tools properly.And then of course enshitified them.

Open AI is Pets.com

@mike I agree, but you do have to try things in order to see what works and what does not
@krst Actually the bravery is in killing it. It's easy to keep dumping money into something that doesn't work hoping it will take.
@mike esp throwing away $1B from the Disney deal in the process