[lefty2]

Sora was losing 15M a day and it was running at least 3 months, so that's a total 1.3 Billion. That's a pretty expensive experiment. It sounds like a company with lots of VC to burn and no discipline. Even Jensen Huang accused them of lack of discipline in business approach.

[notahacker]

Yeah. $1.3B isn't scrappy startup pivots, it's the sort of money Google/Meta/Microsoft/Yahoo/Salesforce burn on strategic acquisitions. And those entities absolutely get and deserve the sneers when they "sunset" the product 6-18 months later having concluded that it wasn't even showing enough signs of being a market they should bother with keeping the lights on. At least Sora was novel and technically impressive, I guess.

[pyronite]

Do you have a source for any of this?

I’d previously heard 1M a day.

[lefty2]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2025/11/10/openai-spe...