OpenAI Kills Sora to Redirect Compute to 'Automated Researchers and Companies'

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Altman explained the Sora shutdown as strategic resource allocation: OpenAI needs to 'concentrate our compute and product capacity into the next generation of automated researchers and companies.' OpenAI now plans a 'superapp' with agentic AI for software, data analysis, and task execution — conceding it has trailed Anthropic in the agentic productivity market. Altman noted OpenAI previously killed robotics for the same reason.