OpenAI kills products fast: Sora lasted 6 months, Atlas 9, Agent Builder 8
emollick · x · 2026-10-31
Ethan Mollick tallies OpenAI's discontinued products: Sora lasted 6 months, Agent Builder and Group Chat 8 months, Atlas browser 9 months. Most (Sora perhaps excepted) were obsoleted by OpenAI's own releases within months — evidence, he notes, that even OpenAI isn't immune to misjudging the pace of the exponential.
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