OpenAI is pulling the plug on Sora, its AI video generation tool, in a two-stage shutdown starting April 2026. The move signals a major strategic shift away from creative AI tools and toward coding and enterprise products.

"We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests," an exec said.

OpenAI is pulling the plug on Sora, its AI video generation tool, in a two-stage shutdown starting April 2026. The move signals a major strategic shift away from creative AI tools…

Your AI meme videos weren’t helping OpenAI get out of the red.

OpenAI is shutting down Sora after the video app burned through about a million dollars a day in compute, quickly lost half its users, and turned from a prestige project into a…