{"id":549452,"date":"2026-03-28T00:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/549452\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T00:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:36:22","slug":"why-is-openai-dropping-video-to-focus-on-what-really-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/549452\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is OpenAI Dropping Video? To Focus On What Really Matters."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s Sora video generation tool was hailed as a breakthrough when it was introduced in 2024. Journalists called it \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/02\/technology\/openai-sora-video-app.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jaw-dropping<\/a>,\u201d especially in its later versions. Disney signed a multiyear deal with OpenAI for Sora to use its characters.<\/p>\n<p>But on Tuesday, OpenAI canceled Sora. One view is that <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2026\/03\/ai-openai-sam-altman-disney-sora-shutdown.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this is evidence<\/a> of AI getting overhyped, and OpenAI is retreating from an area in which it had failed to find success and fallen behind competitors like Google and ByteDance. It\u2019s being trotted out as an example of how AI is not living up to its promise.<\/p>\n<p>I have a different view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s Sora video generation tool was hailed as a breakthrough when it was introduced in 2024. Journalists called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-549452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}