# AI Video

The Short, Cinematic Life of Sora: Why OpenAI Is Abandoning AI Video for the Agentic Future

OpenAI has abruptly shut down its Sora video generation platform, terminating its app and API just months after high-profile partnerships with Disney and Hollywood. The move signals a strategic pivot away from high-cost creative tools toward profitable AI agents and infrastructure, highlighting the unsustainable compute costs of generative video.