Dave Morin: OpenAI's obvious social play was group chat, not Sora
Dave Morin · #119 OpenAI Sora vs. TikTok: Can “AI Entertainment” Fund the Compute Bill? · More or Less Podcast · Oct 3, 2025 · at 28:09
Dave Morin (creator of Path and early Facebook executive) evaluates OpenAI's product roadmap following the launch of their standalone Sora video app.
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“I always assumed that one day I would wake up and I would open ChatGPT and it would ask me to upload my contacts and then I would be able to use ChatGPT with my friends, right? Like the four of us could use ChatGPT and have ChatGPT in the middle of the conversation and we could collaborate and create stuff together. Like to me, like that's the obvious graph play for ChatGPT and OpenAI.”
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