Why OpenAI abandoned Sora: strategic focus over video models
umesh_ai · x · 2026-08-23
The author analyzes why ChatGPT lacks video understanding and why Anthropic isn't building image or video models. It speculates that OpenAI abandoned Sora to focus resources on competing with Anthropic in coding and enterprise markets, rather than spending billions to fight ByteDance in video. Google seems to be making a similar trade-off, prioritizing core Gemini models, while only xAI seems unbothered by doing everything at once.
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