Sora, Vibes, and the Next Trend in Social - DTNS 5142
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Grand Theft Auto 6 gets yet another delay in pursuit of perfection, and Amazon launches Bazzar as it seeks to compete directly with Shein and Temu.
Starring Jason Howell, Huyen Tue Dao, Tom Merritt, and Andy Beach.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, November 7th, 2025. |
| 0:05.0 | We tell you what you need to know, follow up in the context of those stories and help each other understand. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, Andy Beach tells us about Amazon's solopreneur blind spot and the generative AIV |
| 0:17.0 | race is heating up with Sora and Vib's expansions taking place. I'm Jason Howell. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Windowdowell. |
| 0:23.3 | Let's start with what you need to know with a big story. |
| 0:27.1 | Okay, I'm curious because we didn't really talk about this very much, if at all, on Android |
| 0:32.3 | Faithful earlier this week, surprisingly. |
| 0:34.1 | But Open AI's SORA Android app, which did release earlier this week, |
| 0:39.7 | apparently doing very well. |
| 0:41.5 | It shot off to a very strong start, 470,000 first day installs. |
| 0:47.5 | That's a pretty impressive outing on the very first day. |
| 0:51.1 | That's actually more than four times the amount of iOS's numbers, which saw around |
| 0:56.6 | 110 total, sorry, 110,000 total installs on day one. The releases are a little different, though. |
| 1:03.9 | On iOS, it was a limited kind of amount of users that could use it because of an invite-only |
| 1:09.3 | requirement. Also, more restricted regional rollout that just limited it to U.S. and Canada. |
| 1:15.3 | The Android app is a little more expanded. |
| 1:17.7 | So maybe they're not apples to apples. |
| 1:21.1 | But then as I was kind of like thinking through this story, |
| 1:24.0 | I realized that meta also, and actually, honestly, reminded that meta had |
| 1:28.6 | released something similar to SORA in the U.S. back in September. That was an app called Vibes. |
| 1:35.4 | And that, well, actually, it's not really an app called Vives. It's a portion of their meta AI app that |
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