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The Claim

OpenAI shut down its Sora text-to-video AI platform in March 2026.

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The Short Version

Multiple major news outlets — CBS News, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, TechCrunch, and others — confirm that OpenAI announced the discontinuation of its Sora consumer app and API in March 2026, quoting official OpenAI statements. The claim is substantially accurate. However, it slightly overstates scope: the shutdown targeted the standalone Sora app and API specifically, while the underlying video-generation model may remain accessible through other OpenAI products like ChatGPT Plus. The shutdown was also announced as a phaseout rather than an instantaneous cutoff.

Caveats

  • The shutdown applied specifically to the standalone Sora consumer app and API — the underlying video-generation model may still be accessible through other OpenAI products such as ChatGPT Plus.
  • At least one source indicates OpenAI edited its original announcement to clarify that only the 'Sora app' was ending, not all Sora video-generation capability.
  • The discontinuation was described as a phaseout; some services may have remained temporarily operational after the March 24 announcement.

The Receipts

  1. The End of Sora: Lessons from OpenAI's Video AI Experiment

    arXiv

  2. OpenAI shuts down Sora video app as Disney scraps $1 billion deal - San Francisco Chronicle

    San Francisco Chronicle

  3. OpenAI pulls the plug on its Sora AI video app - CBS News

    CBS News

  4. OpenAI's Sora exit signals enterprise-first AI shift - Computerworld

    Computerworld

  5. OpenAI Sora is gone. The artists are still working. - TNW

    TNW

  6. OpenAI Discontinues Its Sora App Amid Robotics Shift, Compute Limits - Business Insider

    Business Insider

  7. OpenAI's Sora app may be going away, but its legacy will be the spread of AI video slop

    NPR

  8. OpenAI's Slop Machine Sora Is Dead. We're All Better Off Without It - CNET

    CNET

  9. OpenAI's Sora was the creepiest app on your phone - TechCrunch

    TechCrunch

  10. OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app - 9to5Google

    9to5Google

+ 4 more sources — see the full list on Lenz

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