Sam Altman: OpenAI Paused Sora and Browser to Focus on Coding Agents
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-08-10
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared the company's rationale for strategic focus. He explained that at crucial moments, OpenAI kills good projects to double down on the most promising ones. For instance, they shut down robotics when GPT-3 started working, and recently paused Sora and the Atlas browser to fully concentrate on coding agents.
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