OpenAI's Sora Posts Its Own Goodbye: Another Product Sunset Announcement
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A screenshot of a pinned post on X.com from the verified account 'Sora' (@soraofficialapp), with the OpenAI logo next to the gold checkmark and a blue cloud avatar with starry eyes. The post reads: 'We're saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We'll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work. - The Sora Team', timestamped 8:57 PM, 24/3/26 with 73K views, 218 replies, 342 reposts, 851 likes, and 170 bookmarks. The image captures the now-familiar corporate product-sunset ritual in AI, where heavily hyped tools are deprecated with a polite farewell post, leaving builders who integrated the API scrambling
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Building your product on someone else's flagship AI API: the only architecture where the single point of failure writes you a heartfelt goodbye note
Sora's final world simulation was a perfectly realistic SaaS sunset.
It has begun! Comment deleted
Is this real? EDIT: checked, it is Comment deleted
It mattered, so it finally dies off and doesn't happen again. Comment deleted
and not for any other reason Comment deleted
Why did it die? Comment deleted
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2036538590654496807 Comment deleted
Nah... https://openrouter.ai/openai/sora-2-pro Comment deleted
https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing#video Comment deleted