AedelonA $20/month user costs OpenAI $65 in compute. AI video is a money furnace
https://aedelon777.substack.com/p/i-did-the-math-on-sora-ai-video-is
Could OpenAI have released a local paid version, instead of shutting down Sora? Maybe. A lot of users have beefy machines.
Full quality Sora yeah probably needs serious hardware. distilled version on a 4090 though? maybe. danjl earlier in this thread made a solid case for just distributing the weights and letting people run locally. the SD/ComfyUI crowd already does this daily. OpenAI won't because deepfakes. they already had a mess WITH server-side moderation. open weights with zero moderation, good luck with that PR.