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