Berber Jin

He really felt like this could have been a chat GPT moment for the creative space.

So Sam Altman, he always had a vision of AI reshaping popular culture, reshaping entertainment, and Sora very much fit into that.

He really felt like this could have been a chat GPT moment for the creative space.

But OpenAI is preparing to go public later this year.

They need to grow their revenue very quickly.

And what's happened in the past few months is that it's become very clear that the easiest and fastest way to make money in AI right now

is to sell productivity tools to businesses and to developers.

And Anthropic has really just been ahead of OpenAI.

And so OpenAI is in the middle of this really big strategy shift towards catching up in building these productivity tools.

And what happened was that Sora really just, it no longer made sense within the kind of strategic roadmap of OpenAI, right?

Because

it was incredibly computationally intensive.

And so OpenAI just decided that they couldn't really afford to keep Sora alive because they're in this precarious moment where they have to devote as many computing resources as possible towards winning that coding and enterprise business.

It speaks to a lot of themes that are very central to this moment in technology, which is that these companies are creating something that in many ways resembles how humans

behave at the very least, right?

If you talk to a chatbot, they're very smart.

Sometimes you can even detect a sense of their personality.

With OpenAI, there were all of these debates around how sycophantic the model should be to users.

So it brings up all these really interesting questions about how to design

the behavior of a chatbot.