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Back to EpisodesOpenAI Sora Shutdown: $15M/Day Compute Costs, Disney's $1B Deal Collapse, and the Hard Economics of AI Video - April 15, 2026
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OpenAI Sora Shutdown: $15M/Day Costs, the Disney $1B Deal Collapse, and the Hard Economics of AI Video - April 15, 2026
OpenAI's Sora video generation tool burned $15 million per day in compute against just $2.1 million in total lifetime revenue, leading to its shutdown on March 24th. The collapse torpedoed Disney's planned billion-dollar partnership and raises fundamental questions about whether consumer AI video generation can ever be economically viable.
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