Jaeden Schafer

So this is a quote from the Wall Street Journal that said,

CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff on Tuesday, writing that the company would wind down products that use its video models.

In addition to the consumer app, OpenAI will also discontinue a version of Sora for developers and won't support video functionality inside of ChatGPT either.

OpenAI is in the middle of a strategy shift to redirect the company's computing resources and top talents towards so-called productivity tools that can be used by both enterprises and individual users.

Last week, OpenAI announced that it was combining its ChatGPT desktop app

coding tool Codex and browser into one super app.

The company expects the consolidated product to align its employees around a single vision.

Now, as someone that personally actually has both the Codex and I also have their Atlas app,

And, you know, ChatGPT has a desktop app.

So, you know, kind of combining all those does make a lot of sense to me.

I'm not sure why you'd need multiple.

I also have the Cloud app, which has basically all of those features in one place as well.

So I think as far as consolidating the app, that makes a lot of sense.

Now, killing off one of their, you know, major AI models, which to be fair.

Had a lot of use.

I still remember when this thing came out back in October, Sora hit a million downloads faster than ChatGPT did.

And of course, that's kind of probably riding on the back of a lot of these viral clips that people were making and kind of a lot of the viral campaigns that they had built around this.

So I think Sora had about 627,000 iOS downloads in its first seven days compared to ChatGP, which had like 606,000 in its first week.

So obviously, like this was a very popular app, but it seemed to be something that was popular for a second, right?

It's kind of a novelty.