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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Sora comes up
AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware
- ▶ 7:35 Alex Kantrowitz You know, your answer sparks an immediate follow-up for me, which is, I was recently, uh, at OpenAI headquarters speaking with Greg Brockman, the president of OpenAI, and it was in the moment that they had decided that they were going to…
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 25:58 M.G. Siegler Like they've tried something that was sort of like Sora, but they did all fake, you know, fake stuff, Sora. 2 times in the scene
AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko
- ▶ 13:21 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, so that to me is like, as that, as companies have shifted away from those things, we know that Sora is going away at, at open AI.
OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
- ▶ 19:20 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, on the, um, Sora type stuff and, you know, try to own the consumer side of generative AI as opposed to shifting to codex.
More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
- ▶ 18:06 M.G. Siegler That's why they're doing everything and killing off these side quests and killing off Sora and, and just trying to focus because they see this real threat from what had historically been their much smaller competitor.
OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure
- ▶ 18:36 Alex Kantrowitz Um, OpenAI, especially under Fiji's leadership, has been, in recent weeks, much more focused, no more side quests, shutting down Sora, and so there's been, I think, a lazy argument that, that, yeah, a lazy argument that buying TBPN is a…
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
- ▶ 4:50 Greg Brockman But the thing that's important to realize is technologically that the Sora models, which are incredible models, by the way, are a different branch of the tech tree than the core 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:26 Alex Kantrowitz On the GPT reasoning model tree as opposed to this area where you've, you had been seeing real progress with Sora.
OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- ▶ 1:06 Alex Kantrowitz Now, we had been talking about the fact that OpenAI had so many projects going, whether it was video generation with Sora or the browser with Atlas, coding with Codex.
AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
- ▶ 47:50 Alex Kantrowitz Sora was the like runaway hit of the year last year for like a half a second. 10 times in the scene
Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
- ▶ 33:35 Alex Kantrowitz Some of the other bets, uh, Sora, you know, haven't worked exactly according to plan.
Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
- ▶ 49:54 Ranjan Roy Like, have you Sora recently out of curiosity? 2 times in the scene
AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball
- ▶ 23:05 M.G. Siegler A flash in the pan is maybe Sora was like, I do think that they do a good job getting it out there much better than a lot of other companies have done to date.
Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
- ▶ 29:33 Sam Altman Um, a kind of recent cool example here is we built the Sora Android app using Codex.
OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
- ▶ 1:13 Ranjan Roy When I am able to do weird things with Mickey Mouse on Sora, thanks to this new Disney and OpenAI deal, I will declare 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:57 Ranjan Roy Based on the hires, but how they're actually, where this sits in the Mickey Mouse smoking weed on Sora or whatever else, uh, in the totem pole of priorities within, uh, OpenAI, it's still unclear to me.
- ▶ 24:33 Alex Kantrowitz As part of the deal, OpenAI will license more than 200 characters from Disney, so users can create AI-generated videos in Sora. 14 times in the scene
Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
- ▶ 26:12 Alex Kantrowitz Not soon, no, Sora.
- ▶ 59:01 Ranjan Roy Like, I'll admit, the same way, have you used Sora since that first week?
OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
- ▶ 1:04 Alex Kantrowitz We started October, October really with Sora.
- ▶ 27:22 Alex Kantrowitz A company that might be the next Amazon or Microsoft with the AI cloud division, a company that might be the next Apple with a device built for the future, uh, and the company that might be the next Facebook with these AI, uh, social media…
- ▶ 52:39 M.G. Siegler I think most people look at the iPhone and be like, again, this is a, this is a great device for the things I actually want to do right now, which is take pictures and use ChatGPT and use, you know, whatever app I want and, and, uh, play…
OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
- ▶ 30:50 Ranjan Roy To me, this is a lot more interesting and exciting if they're actually going to be going after all the large cloud providers versus just kind of giving us Sora personalized ads.
- ▶ 33:56 Ranjan Roy The, I mean, and we, we, we've talked about this since the moment Fiji SEMA was hired, um, when the moment Pulse came out, certainly when Sora came out, like, they're just laying this groundwork and infrastructure for just lots of ads, and… 4 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
- ▶ 17:39 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, uh, Sora, I don't know what the longevity of Sora is at the top of the App Store charts, but I'll tell you, it has been replaced at the top of the top charts. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:29 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, happy birthday to you, Drake, and congrats for being the reason why Sora is no longer number one on the app store.
- ▶ 49:44 Alex Kantrowitz They've spent their days using Sora, but they are hungry.
Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem
- ▶ 44:22 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I think it's important for us, you know, we're a couple weeks removed from Sora. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:17 Ranjan Roy Or when, or when OpenAI needs to juice their numbers a little bit and starts auto-generating Sora videos based on your ChatGPT history and posting them, that's when things are gonna get truly interesting.
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 5:01 Ranjan Roy Moments in product over the last couple of weeks, SOAR included, which we're going to talk about, and I've been waiting to talk to you again.
- ▶ 22:04 Ranjan Roy I, I have not, but, but again, this idea that it's just gonna be, like, sucking up compute all night long just to give you some, uh, some updates in the morning, and then potentially ads as we talked about, and I've kind of, like, come to… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:07 Ranjan Roy You should just create your own entire Sora parallel universe where the Jets are winning Super Bowls, all of the above. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:31 Alex Kantrowitz Let's talk about, uh, about speaking of Sora. 7 times in the scene
Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
- ▶ 36:29 Alex Kantrowitz So as, as the co-founder of Instagram, I'm sure you've watched with interest as AI-generated images and videos have filled social media feeds and even propelled like Sora, the Sora app, to the number one spot on the App Store. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
- ▶ 29:37 M.G. Siegler Compute complaint is in place other than the general compute complaint that we're seeing with Sora and everything else right now, right? 3 times in the scene
Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz The gates of content hell are open as OpenAI's Sora II debuts with ultra-realistic AI slop, and Apple has elevated its smart glasses plan, and they could be coming soon.
- ▶ 1:04 Alex Kantrowitz And Max, we're going to get into yours because you have some new reporting on the state of OpenAI after this Sora II launch and how some of the employees there are trying to figure out what it means for the company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, for those who don't know, Sora II is OpenAI's new video generator, which they've now included in an app called, uh, Sora, which is basically meant to rival TikTok and YouTube. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:02 Max Zeff I think it's a little less clear to me how Sora gives, gives people the benefits of AI world models in the same way. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:42 Max Zeff Um, I think that it is, I, my take about the SOAR app is I don't think that OpenAI is setting itself up for success with this because they are opening themselves up to, you know, the, the kind of incentives of a social media app.
- ▶ 22:36 Max Zeff Like, I think that we will see just more content in general as a result of these AI video models and Sora. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
- ▶ 33:17 Ranjan Roy Isn't as interesting to me, like, is this another Sora, or is this GPT-III?
Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- ▶ 37:48 unnamed speaker But if it's a flashy launch, I mean, have you generated anything on Sora recently? 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
- ▶ 46:34 Ranjan Roy I mean, I, and, and again, the video quality on these, like the facial expressions, the settings behind the subjects, it's, to think, uh, I will say, in terms of model versus product, video models, the leaps they've been making in a pretty… 2 times in the scene
The Secret Problem With AI Agents and How To Solve It — With Guy Tytunovich
- ▶ 9:32 Guy Tytunovich I've been doing artificial intelligence for about 20 years now, and like, when I remember when Sora by OpenAI came out, I could not have envisioned a day prior to that, that AI is already there.
OpenAI’s Ghibli Moment, CoreWeave's IPO Letdown, End of Silicon Valley’s Monopoly?
- ▶ 22:29 Alex Kantrowitz There was someone who took, oh, I think maybe they used Sora
Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — With Yann LeCun
- ▶ 36:58 Alex Kantrowitz But now you go to something like Sora, uh, and you say, um, show me a video of a man sitting on a chair kicking his legs.
AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang
- ▶ 41:56 Alexandr Wang We just saw today, for example, that OpenAI released Sora.
Is Generative AI Plateauing?, Booming Bluesky, Apple’s Smart Glasses Play
- ▶ 11:58 Ranjan Roy Sora, um, but we're very, very far away.
OpenAI's Leaked Financial Data
- ▶ 6:31 Cory Weinberg We don't know what that'll look like, but obviously, you know, we know there's a lot that's not out in the world that they've teased like Sora and, you know, kind of a perplexity type of competitor to.
Is OpenAI’s New “o1” Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For?
- ▶ 3:24 Parmy Olson So for example, you know, there was the whole, um, Sora video thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:10 Alex Kantrowitz Maybe, yeah, I don't know, like, this is preview, of course, and you, you, you mentioned it, and, and you're totally right that we've seen Sora, uh, which has been a lot of hype and not released yet, and we've seen the voice, uh, uh, or… 2 times in the scene
Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
- ▶ 33:50 Alex Kantrowitz Because what we've seen out of open AI Sora and others is just kind of, you know, jaw dropping. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:26 Alex Kantrowitz And then on the other side, you have open AI that's created, uh, Sora.
NVIDIA's Artifical Intelligence Moat & Origins — With Bryan Catanzaro
- ▶ 23:00 Bryan Catanzaro Um, you know, these, these sorts of world models, um, you know, I, I was really impressed with the, uh, open AI Sora project, uh, this week as well. 2 times in the scene