OpenAI Pulls the Plug on Sora Just Months After Launch

Goodbye OpenAI Pulls the Plug on Sora Just Months After Launch At the end of 2024, the company unveiled Sora, a text-to-video AI model that could generate moving images based on user prompts By Charisma Madarang Charisma Madarang Contact Charisma Madarang on X Contact Charisma Madarang by Email View all posts by Charisma Madarang March 24, 2026 OpenAI has announced that it’s “saying goodbye” to Sora , the social media platform that featured exclusively AI-generated videos. “To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” the company said in a statement on Tuesday. “What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work.” The original Sora model was made available to ChatGPT Pro and ChatGPT Plus users in the U.S. and Canada back in December 2025 — introducing a text-to-video AI model that could generate moving images based on user prompts, ranging from stylistic animations to photorealistic “footage.” The following September, the company launched a standalone app offering users a TikTok -style social media feed with nothing but artificially generated content. Videos appeared in a user’s feed, and could liked and remixed by others on the platform. The new app quickly became the most-downloaded in the iOS App Store’s Photo and Video category. As users were wowed by OpenAI‘s latest AI video generation model’s realistic images and physics, it ran into immediate problems with copyright infringement and deepfakes. Then, the Walt Disney Co. announced in December that it had struck a three-year deal with OpenAI to bring its iconic characters to Sora — licensing more than 200 of its characters for use in AI video and agreeing to invest $1 billion in OpenAI. Trending Stories ‘Reacher’ Star Alan Ritchson Will Not Face Charges After Altercation With Neighbor