The Sora 2 Breakthrough, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap

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Alex Kantrowitz

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🗓️ 4 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Max Zeff, Sr. AI reporter at Techcrunch, joins for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI introduces Sora 2 2) Will these AI video feeds catch on? 3) Is Sora 2 an important technological advance above all? 4) Why Meta is nervous about OpenAI's momentum in social 5) OpenAI employees have mixed feelings about Sora 6) Why AI video feeds may be the end of the creator economy. 7) Why they may not be 8) Meta will use AI chats to train its ad models 9) Meta's AI research moves more toward product development 10) Anthropic launches its Sonnet 4.5 model 11) Apple prioritizes smart glasses 12) Max tries out the Friend pendant --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Three Faces Of Generative AI: https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-three-faces-of-generative-ai Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	The gates of content hell are open as Open AIs SORA 2 debuts with ultra-realistic AI slop.
0:08.2	And Apple has elevated its smart glasses plan and they could be coming soon.
0:13.1	That's coming up on a Big Technology podcast Friday edition with TechCrunch senior AI reporter Max Zeph right after this.
0:23.3	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition where we break down the news with our traditional cool-headed and nuanced approach.
0:28.8	Today we have TechCrunch senior AI reporter Max Zep joining us to talk about everything
0:34.1	AI slop. There's so much slop, but maybe it turns into something. We'll
0:38.0	talk about how it might challenge the creator economy. We'll also talk about Apple's smart
0:42.9	glasses and the fact that it's speeding it up in the roadmap and plenty more. Max, great to see you.
0:48.6	Welcome to the show. Great to be here. Longtime listener. Definitely. Well, we are, we always talk about your stories on the show.
0:57.2	Here is a hint for listeners and viewers. When you hear me cite a TechCrunch story, it's almost
1:02.6	always Max's. And Max, we're going to get into yours because you have some new reporting on the
1:08.9	state of Open AI after this SORA 2 launch and how some of the
1:14.1	employees there are trying to figure out what it means for the company.
1:17.6	But let's start off talking about SOR2.
1:20.4	For those who don't know, SORA2 is OpenAI's new video generator, which they've now
1:26.4	included in an app called SORA, which is basically
1:30.9	meant to rival TikTok and YouTube.
1:33.9	This is from the Wall Street Journal.
1:35.9	Open AI is squaring up to TikTok, Google's YouTube, and meta platforms with a new social media
1:40.7	apps for its AI video generator that allows users to create high definition
1:44.9	video clips with audio from text prompts. Users can upload short clips of themselves and insert
1:51.5	them into Sora generated worlds describing the idea, style, and scene they want to see. They can also
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