{"id":1001290,"date":"2026-04-04T11:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001290"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:18:42","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/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\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman breaks silence on shutting down Sora in less than a year, and leaving Disney in &#8216;lurch&#8217;; says: I did not expect &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman\u2019s 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: &#8216;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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For those unaware, The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI signed an agreement for Disney in December last year, becoming \u201cthe first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI\u2019s short-form generative AI video platform\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman\u2019s 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: &#8216;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.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}