ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Is Shutting Down Its AI Video App, Sora
Sora's closure comes just a few months after it announced a US$1 billion deal with The Walt Disney Company, one of the world’s largest entertainment companies.
San Francisco-based OpenAI—the company behind the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, ChatGPT—has shuttered Sora, the AI video generation app it had launched in February 2024.
Sora allowed users to generate short videos from text prompts, placing themselves and others in different settings and scenarios. A standalone Sora app launched in September 2025, which allowed users to create and share videos on social media-style feeds.
In a post on the social media platform X, the company said: “We’re saying goodbye to the Sora app. 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. We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and application programming interface (API) and details on preserving your work.”
Sora's closure comes just a few months after it announced a US$1 billion deal with The Walt Disney Company, one of the world’s largest entertainment companies. The three-year deal included plans for Disney to invest $1 billion in OpenAI and provide access to more than 200 of its characters for use in AI-generated short videos. However, according to Reuters, the transaction was never finalized, and no funds were exchanged.
