Fordel StudiosWhy OpenAI really shut down Sora
What Happened
OpenAI's decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public, raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces — so was this some kind of elaborate data grab?
Our Take
The face-upload scandal sells headlines, but honestly? Sora just wasn't good enough to justify the compute cost.
Six months in, quality plateaued. Lip-sync still looked janky. It's not a privacy play—it's math: cost-per-second divided by quality didn't pencil.
OpenAI reallocated the GPU budget to something with better ROI. That's the real story.
What To Do
Watch OpenAI's next GPU spend—track Vercel and Azure patterns to see what actually replaced Sora's compute allocation.
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