Sora Is No Mora

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

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0:00.0	Open AIs, Sora is Nomora.
0:07.5	Motley Fool Money starts now.
0:16.5	Welcome to Motley Full Money.
0:21.8	I'm Travis Hoy.
0:22.6	I'm joined today by Lou Whiteman and Rachel Warren.
0:25.3	And guys, the Open AI news continues to come out.
0:29.3	Lou, we talked about this a little bit yesterday with Tyler Crow on the show.
0:32.7	But the breaking news yesterday was that they are shutting down SORA, this sort of social media video
0:40.0	app that they launched not too long ago, a few months ago.
0:43.7	But not only that, they're actually shutting down making their own video models.
0:48.3	Rachel, this seems like a huge shift for opening.
0:51.4	They're really focusing on kind of that enterprise side coding, you know,
0:55.0	their codex product. We talked about that. It was so striking that they have put so much time
0:59.6	and energy, even a billion dollar deal with Disney, to try to build up this video business,
1:04.6	one of those spaghetti at the wall kind of things. And now they're just saying, you know what,
1:07.9	we're done with that. Yeah. I mean, there was a lot of viral buzz around Sora, but there had also been kind of some major challenges. So, you know,
1:15.5	SORA had this ability to generate lifelike videos. I mean, it was generating unauthorized clips of
1:20.3	people like Michael Jackson and Martin Luther King Jr. So there was a fierce opposition from
1:25.1	actors unions, family estates. There was even an issue they were having with the Japanese government demanding that
1:30.2	OpenAI stopped using copyrighted anime and manga characters in Sora v2.
1:34.9	The other point, I think, to make here is very high computational costs required to run
1:39.8	these models, very much putting a dent, I think, in the bigger dream of Open AI for profitability.
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