OpenAI to Shut Down the Popular AI Video Sora App Said to Let Go of Mega Disney Deal

OpenAI said Tuesday that it will stop the popular Sora app, which was closed down by ‘OpenAI’. Its discontinuation affects both the mobile app and the application programming interface (API). But the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) giant did not say why the platform was sunsetted, or when it will hit the kill switch. It comes a time when several reports have said the company wants to integrate Sora’s capabilities within ChatGPT. Sadly, the AI firm said it will be sharing more details in the coming days.

OpenAI to Kill the Sora App Soon

X (formerly called Twitter) The official Sora app’s official handle announced plans to end the AI-powered video generation app in a post on x. To everyone who made the phrase with Sora, shared it and built community around it thank you. It said ‘We know this news is disappointing, and we have done what you did with Sora mattered.’ More details on the timelines will be published at a later date after that post added adding more details to the schedules were released.

It also added that the company will share ways to save users’ videos created by using the Sora app before the platform is closed down. An important difference is that what’s being discontinued is the Sora app and API, not AI model of the same name; this is also the technology behind creating videos from text prompts and images.

This is a time when reports have said that OpenAI plans to integrate Soran video generation capabilities into ChatGPT, the company’s flagship product. Nevertheless, no announcement has been made about the same or any other statement.

The AI giant has not stated why the Sora app is being discontinued, but it told Decrypt in a statement that OpenAI is turning its focus to “world simulation research” to advance robotics. The hard decision is to stop supporting Sora as a consumer app and API offerings, while we still focus on our roadmap to AGI and the compute required for providing agentic AI capabilities. Paraphrast.

In fact this is a sign of the end of OpenAI’s deal with Disney, as it seems. The deal, which was forged in December 2025, granted the rights of the AI giant to over 200 characters and $1 billion (roughly Rs. equity investing, 8,300 crora) and 8, 300 crore), which . So far, no financial exchange between the two companies has been conducted according to reports.