OpenAI unveiled Sora on Feb. 15, 2024, as an AI tool that gave users the ability to create short videos from text prompts. A little more than two years later, on April 26, 2026, OpenAI officially discontinued the video-generation tool. Why? For one thing, it was expensive to run: Generating video requires far more computing power than creating text or images, making it challenging for OpenAI to keep costs under control. Nor was it bringing in enough revenue to justify those costs. According to The Wall Street Journal, Sora was losing $1 million per day., for Open AI. But, as Rutgers professor Ahmed Elgammal noted in a recent article at The Conversation, the challenges Sora faced reflect deeper limitations of AI's creative capacities.

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