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Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

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OpenAI has announced it will shut down its Sora video-generation app, model, and API. The company also ended its partnership with Disney, which had committed a $1 billion investment and licensed Disney characters for Sora. The decision follows Sora’s launch 15 months earlier.

Written from all 9 reports below, not from any single one.

How it was reported

  1. Hacker News·
    Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora
  2. The Verge·
    OpenAI just gave up Sora and its billion-dollar Disney deal
  3. Engadget·
    OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app
  4. TechMeme·
    Disney ends its partnership with OpenAI, signed in December 2025, in which it pledged to invest $1B and agreed to license some characters to Sora (Todd Spangler/Variety)
  5. Ars Technica·
    OpenAI plans to shut down Sora just 15 months after its launch
  6. VentureBeat·
    OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its powerful AI video model, app and API
  7. TechCrunch·
    OpenAI’s Sora was the creepiest app on your phone — now it’s shutting down
  8. Ars Technica·
    Disney cancels $1 billion OpenAI partnership amid Sora shutdown plans
  9. The Next Web·
    OpenAI Sora is gone. The artists are still working.
  10. Wired·
    OpenAI Enters Its Focus Era by Killing Sora

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