Sora
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4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 15, 2025 by Greg Brockman · said 38 times in 16 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- Moonlake: Interactive, Multimodal World Models — with Chris Manning and Fan-yun Sun
- 🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
- Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
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2025 20 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
- A Technical History of Generative Media
- World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI
- After LLMs: Spatial Intelligence and World Models — Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson, World Labs
- Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
- DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
- Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
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2024 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Best of 2024 in Vision [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
- The Ultimate Guide to Prompting - with Sander Schulhoff from LearnPrompting.org
- 2024 in Post-Transformer Architectures: State Space Models, RWKV [Latent Space LIVE! @ NeurIPS 2024]
- The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
- Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI — with Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
Everything said about Sora, oldest first
Aug 15, 2025 bullish
Brockman: Post-AGI humans will survive without work, but compute will differentiate capability
“And so I think that the question of exactly how, you know, if you don't do work, do you survive?
I think the answer will be yes.
You'll have plenty of material, your material needs met.
But I think the question of
Can you do more?
Can you have not just generat…”
Sep 8, 2025 bullish
Nov 14, 2025 neutral
OpenAI Spent $7 Billion on Compute, With $5 Billion for R&D
“This year, OpenAI spent seven billion dollars on compute. Only two of that was for all of their inference. The remaining five was R&D. So all of ChatGPT, all eight hundred million users, all of Sora, all of like, all, all the sort of like API volume, two billi…”
Apr 2, 2026 bearish
Manning: OpenAI's Sora cannot produce compelling gameplay or persistent mechanics
“Don't think you can take Sora and produce compelling gameplay, right? If you want to have a world that you can wander around in a bit, you're good, but what are your abilities to have gameplay mechanics implemented the way you'd like them to be, and to have th…”