OpenAI CEO Sam Altman breaks silence on shutting down Sora in less than a year, and leaving Disney in ‘lurch’; says: I did not expect …
Sam Altman’s OpenAI announced to shut down its Sora video platform last week. The platform was announced in September 2025 and is being discontinued in less than a year. Days later, the company CEO has shared views on the decision to shut down Sora. Speaking on the tech podcast Mostly Human, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told host Laurie Segall: ‘We have a few times in our history realized something really important is working, or about to work so well, that we have to stop a bunch of other projects. In fact, this was the original thing that happened with GPT3.”
For those unaware, The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI signed an agreement for Disney in December last year, becoming “the first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI’s short-form generative AI video platform”.
