Why OpenAI Killed Sora and What It Means for Video
OpenAI shut down Sora after six months, losing Disney's $1 billion deal. Analysis of the economics that made it unsustainable and who wins the AI video market now.
OpenAI shut down Sora after six months, losing Disney's $1 billion deal. Analysis of the economics that made it unsustainable and who wins the AI video market now.
Val Kilmer will star in As Deep as the Grave through a fully AI-generated performance, marking the first feature film lead created entirely with generative AI.
OpenAI is planning to integrate its Sora AI video generator directly into ChatGPT, according to a report from The Information. The move would bring AI video creation capabilities to ChatGPT's hundreds of millions of active users, dramatically expanding Sora's reach beyond its standalone app
Runway launched an internal incubator called Runway Labs on March 12, 2026, to explore applications of its generative video and world model technology outside filmmaking
Google merged three separate AI creative tools into one platform in March 2026. Flow now combines Whisk (mood boards and collages), ImageFX (text-to-image generation), and Flow's original video capabilities into a single workspace powered by Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana
Kiwi-Edit, a new open-source video editing framework from NUS ShowLab, launched on March 5, 2026, combining text instruction guidance with reference image control to handle both global and local video edits at 720p resolution