Chapter 1: Why did OpenAI decide to shut down Sora?
Guys, there is some huge news that you've probably heard, which is that OpenAI is shutting down Sora. There is some crazy new numbers that have just been released on why OpenAI is shutting down Sora and how much money it was bleeding the company.
I think kind of the, I'd be curious what you heard about it, Jamie, but a lot of the things that I heard at the beginning were like, oh, they're just trying to focus on text because Anthropic is kind of growing with like some of their cloud code features and some of their cloud cowork features. So they're trying to be more focused. I didn't realize how much of a money thing it was.
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I was a little bit surprised at first until we got into the numbers, but you know, because they had just struck a deal for, I think a billion dollars with Disney. So they were going to be able to license some of the Disney characters on Sora. So like, it seemed like they're really ramping it up and trying to really promote it.
But as of last week, I think the, they released that they were losing a million dollars per day on Sora because they So they had so few users that were actually using it. And so, yeah, so they had the peak users on Sora were around a million dollars or sorry, a million, which I don't know if that means per day or per week, whatever that is, but now it's down to around 500,000.
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Chapter 2: What were the financial implications of Sora's operation?
And I hope that they're not gone. I actually heard a number from one report that every HD, 10 second HD video clip you were generating on Sora was costing OpenAI $133. Wow.
Wow. That's insane. Which is horrible. That's insane.
It's so crazy. I'm like, bro, they should have paid me for all the videos I didn't generate. I could have just sat there regenerating over and over again and racking up a $100,000 bill. I should be paid for that. Wow. But it seems like Google's going all in. And one thing that I do think is funny, I did actually hear this one use case from my brother, I believe.
He always has these like the funny, crazy use cases. And he's like, dude, I love the Sora video model because you can make like fake ring camera like videos. I'm like, what? So apparently there's a whole trend of creating fake ring camera videos. And I've seen it. I've actually found it over on X, which is it makes me laugh because
When you watch an AI generated video, especially Soar, it wasn't 100%. Like you could generate as many as you wanted on their platform, but they weren't that high quality. But if you made it look like it was a ring camera, then it didn't really matter. And so this one guy, he's got a ring camera where apparently it's like a girl and then she gets pooped on by like a bird.
And, uh, apparently this got 9 million views in under a week. So people are generating, my brother was telling me, he's like, yeah, I would like always make these like karma videos where like a neighbor was like coming and yelling at the ring camera. And then when they're walking away, they would like trip and fall in the mud or something. And they would get like thousands of views.
I'm like, Oh my gosh, I don't really know what the point of these videos are, but people are racking up viral, viral, uh, ring camera videos with Sora. Um, One thing I'll say as we are wrapping up this podcast, if you want to try Sora because it's in April. So, I mean, basically when you're hearing this, it's this month or we're recording on the last day of March in April. Sora is shutting down.
You won't be able to use the app. You won't be able to use the platform. It's gone. Every $133 video that you usually are used to making will be gone. But if you want to try it out before it disappears, because it's also the API is getting deleted. It's on my platform, AI box.ai. If you want to try it out, maybe make yourself a viral ring camera video, go try out AI box.ai.
You get access to this, but also all of the different Google models. So even when Sora gets deleted, you can save your prompts and use them on there. So Anyways, go check out AI Box if you want to get the last taste of Sora before it's officially gone from the internet. All right, guys. Thanks so much for tuning into the podcast. We will catch you all in the next episode.
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