Some highlights from the WSJ Death of Sora article: - Disney execs learned about Sora being shut down less than an hour before it was announced, this verifies the reporting from Reuters - OpenAI needed to free up compute for Spud, specifically for enterprise tool use - The training run for Sora 3 was about to begin, and the estimated cost was very high - OpenAI had begun piloting an enterprise version of Sora for release in the Spring - at the time of its cancellation Sora had less than 500k users, and was losing a million dollars a day - Disney is currently in active discussions with more than a dozen different companies for their new AI video model and AI tools