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OpenAI Cracks Navier-Stokes, Tech Trailers, AI Jobs Apocalypse on Hold | Diet TBPN Sep 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:07 Jordi Hays But you're saying is the average person is probably more impressed by Sora than by this?

Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN Sep 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:35 John Coogan But this is the same thing as the Sora discourse where everyone was caught up in Sora is, is either going to be the most powerful thing ever, and we're not gonna be able to stop watching it, or it's gonna be 2 times in the scene

AI Profits Surge, $70B Capex Surge Raises Investor Concerns, Automated Skin Exams | Diet TBPN May 1, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 13:23 unnamed speaker Sora. 2 times in the scene

AI Is Coming for Your Memes, Crypto’s Quantum Clock, Axios Hack| Diet TBPN Apr 1, 2026 · 1 mention

The Axios Supply Chain Attack Explained Mar 31, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:22 unnamed speaker They're talking about Sora, they're talking about Disney, they're talking about

Is Meta Really Addictive?, Jetsons Prediction, Artemis II: Back to the Moon | Diet TBPN Mar 31, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 12:03 unnamed speaker That we sort of had what I called the, the, the, the, the placebo-controlled trial for these exact features last week when Sora shut down. 8 times in the scene

FULL INTERVIEW: Why I Think Nvidia Is Perfectly Positioned In The AI Race Mar 30, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 27:42 Tae Kim And you saw what happened to Sora, right? 2 times in the scene

The $6M Verdict That Could Kill Social Media Mar 30, 2026 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 16:11 unnamed speaker So, uh, I thought it was an odd coincidence that we sort of had what I called the, the, the, the, the placebo-controlled trial for these exact features last week when Sora shut down.
  • ▶ 16:23 unnamed speaker So, uh, OpenAI's nascent social network, Sora, shut down. 9 times in the scene

Benchmark’s Ship of Theseus, OpenAI Kills Sora, SpaceX $2T IPO Buzz | Diet TBPN Mar 25, 2026 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 10:42 John Coogan Sora, rest in peace, Sora. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:05 John Coogan Uh, anyway, Sora is now, is it still in the app store? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:09 Jordi Hays If you create, if you created an amazing video on Sora, what is the most logical thing to do if you're a creator and you want reach? 4 times in the scene

FULL INTERVIEW: Mark Cuban on Robots, AI, Self-Driving, and Advice to Students Mar 19, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 32:11 Mark Cuban Yes, so it's easier, so I'll push into them, or like, I'll just fuck around, like you saw with Sora, um, they had, um, 3 times in the scene

OpenAI Ends Side Quests, SF Housing Market is Back, Kalshi’s $1B Prize | Diet TBPN Mar 17, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 1:58 unnamed speaker Last year, open AI announced an array of new products, including the video generator, Sora, uh, a web browser called Atlas, a new hardware device and e-commerce features for ChatGPT. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:51 unnamed speaker So SOAR is a great example where small team, not huge resource investment, probably a lot of inference and training cost, but relative to codex, 5.4 spar. 2 times in the scene

Why OpenAI Is Killing Side Projects to Win AI Mar 17, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 1:52 unnamed speaker Uh, Sora. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:06 unnamed speaker You're competing with Meta and Social, with Sora.
  • ▶ 13:30 unnamed speaker Uh, SOAR is a great example where small team, not huge resource investment, probably a lot of inference and training cost, but relative to Codex, 5.4, SPAR, I, I don't know. 2 times in the scene

Oracle Rips, Larry Ellison's 1997 Vanity Fair Article, Global Fertilizer Crisis | Diet TBPN Mar 12, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:19 unnamed speaker Sora feeds. 2 times in the scene

The SaaSpocalypse is Cancelled, WB Back in Play, Zuck Grilled in LA Trial | Diet TBPN Feb 20, 2026 · 1 mention

The SaaSpocalypse Is Over Feb 19, 2026 · 1 mention

The AI lab market map, Robinhood brings startups to retail, GLPs & hedge funds | Diet TBPN Feb 19, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic’s $380B round, Paramount vs. WB, Higgsfield ragebait drama | Diet TBPN Feb 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:42 unnamed speaker I do think that there's an interesting opportunity right now for a little bit of what CapCut's doing, plus Nano Banana Sora stuff, where you have a lot of video generation, but then you also have the ability to lay over just actual text,…

AI Isn’t Covid, FBI probes Tai Lopez, Mistral’s $2B Sweden bet | Diet TBPN Feb 12, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:23 unnamed speaker Where, um, like, can Sora, can opening out really Sora with, with that exact voice? 2 times in the scene

Is AI’s COVID Moment Really Here? Feb 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:36 unnamed speaker He built Sora, and if you, and that was a little bit of a violation for that, but sort of in line with what he was doing.
  • ▶ 9:56 unnamed speaker Is this the, someone else said, is this the Seadance Kling Sora version of TBPN?

Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com Feb 11, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:40 unnamed speaker Sora and the Meta Vibes app sort of made a splash, but haven't been super sticky, but

FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN Feb 5, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 19:03 unnamed speaker I feel like if I Google Sam Altman social, I get pure AI and Sora, and then also demand or, or predictions about a human only social network.
  • ▶ 21:00 unnamed speaker Can you talk a little bit more about where Sora as, as a video generation model is going? 3 times in the scene

Anthropic-OpenAI war, Walmart hits $1T, Gas Town & Vibecoding | Diet TBPN Feb 5, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic Declares War on OpenAI in Scrappy Super Bowl Ads Feb 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:15 unnamed speaker yeah, just a bunch of Sora slop.

SpaceX-xAI merger reactions, Paypal plummets, Disney names next CEO | Diet TBPN Feb 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:09 unnamed speaker Um, obviously you still can't generate Disney properties, Disney IP in Sora, or in, or at least not in ChatGPT when I tried.

Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch Feb 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:10 unnamed speaker Yeah, obviously there's a whole bunch of privacy stuff we could go into, but I've, I've long, when, when there was rumors about OpenAI launching a social network, obviously that became Sora, I was just thinking about it in terms of,

Big Tech Earnings, Elon’s SpaceX–xAI Merge, Genie 3 | Diet TBPN Jan 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:38 John Coogan I think just having an API or just having a place where people can, can generate, ah, you know, photo reel videos, or even things like Sora, where it, it has the aesthetics and pacing and cuts of an Instagram reel, that doesn't feel like…

Netflix vs Youtube, Saudi Arabia’s liquidity crunch, Tether’s gold pivot | Diet TBPN Jan 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:54 unnamed speaker Like Sora and Meta, they haven't really been able to hang on to the top spots in the charts.

Clawdbot’s name change, Meta’s new pricing plan, Tyler’s 21st birthday | Diet TBPN Jan 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:32 unnamed speaker You know, it has to be at least Sora, Nano Banana, VO three level.

Kling AI reaches 12M MAU, China's aging tech worker crisis, drama at ThinkingMachine | Diet TBPN Jan 22, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:56 John Coogan 2024, they launched the first version of Kling, and they did this just three months after OpenAI demoed Sora, 2 times in the scene

CES’s legacy, reactions to Dwarkesh’s “Capital in the 22nd Century,” and more | Diet TBPN Jan 7, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:16 unnamed speaker OpenAI has gotten so much, specifically Sam, has gotten so much pushback, because, uh, he'll go out and say, like, we're gonna solve this, and you're gonna have personal, you're gonna have, like, a personal tutor in your pocket, and all…

Meta Acquires Manus, Nvidia's $20B Groq deal, Doordash's Reddit Firestorm l Diet TBPN Jan 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:19 unnamed speaker Even, even Sora is not ranking well.

OpenAI Sets Sights on $750 BILLION Valuation Dec 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:04 unnamed speaker OpenAI releases, uh, Sora II.

Ford PULLS BACK EV Investment Dec 17, 2025 · 2 mentions

GPT-5.2 Reactions, Jacob Elordi vs AI, Disney x OpenAI Deal Breakdown | Diet TBPN Dec 13, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 5:31 unnamed speaker Knowing Sam and Josh, they've likely negotiated to get Soar ChatGPT broad exposure across Disney properties, both online and offline. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:59 unnamed speaker Hard to think of a better time for this deal to get done than 11 days into OpenAI's Code Red, and right as Sora was about to fall out of the App Store's top 25. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:41 unnamed speaker So you think that they would, whenever this rolls out, maybe it's already out, it might be out soon, but let's just assume it rolls out January, you go to Sora, you can generate, you know, uh, Luke Skywalker fighting with Spider-Man,… 2 times in the scene

Disney Partners with OpenAI, Breaking Down SpaceX’s IPO Plans, Oracle Slips | Diet TBPN Dec 12, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 19:23 John Coogan Disney, which is investing one billion dollars in OpenAI and is going to license their characters for use in Sora. 3 times in the scene

The World’s Fastest Growing Defense Company, OpenAI’s Code Red, Google Strikes Back | Diet TBPN Dec 3, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:50 Jordi Hays Sora was, I think, number one in the charts at that point.
  • ▶ 16:55 John Coogan Uh, OpenAI's Sora app has fallen out of the top 20 most downloaded apps in the United States on both the App Store and Google Play. 2 times in the scene

The State of AI: A Field Trip to TBPN’s Aura Farm + Today’s Top Tech Stories | Diet TBPN Nov 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:44 unnamed speaker You could, you could see Sora here.

Nvidia Q3 Earnings, Travis Kalanick's New Startup, Google's Nano Banana Pro Reaction | Diet TBPN Nov 21, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:23 unnamed speaker I mean, you, you went in Sora and you said, depict me as a bodybuilder.
  • ▶ 22:37 unnamed speaker He did Sora, and now he's adding social features to, uh, ChatGPT Core.

Ex Mr. Beast Manager Explains The Creator Economy Nov 18, 2025 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 26:17 unnamed speaker Have you, are you guys using Sora at all? 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:15 unnamed speaker I just need to go edit my Sora prompt to say, never depict me with skinny, small legs. 3 times in the scene

AGI in 2035, SoftBank Sells Nvidia, Buffett Goes Quiet | Diet TBPN Nov 12, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 13:44 unnamed speaker It should be vertical TV windows that you can just put Sora on.
  • ▶ 21:52 unnamed speaker It's because of Sora. 2 times in the scene

Google's First $100B Quarter Reactions | Diet TBPN Oct 31, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:13 unnamed speaker Because it was, they, if they had launched Sora, people would have been saying like, wow.

Are AI Agents Further Away Than We Think? | Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Joins TBPN Oct 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:28 Drew Houston And you know, you watch Sora videos or whatever, and you're like, that comes from somewhere, probably not their artists.

Brian Chesky Live on TBPN Oct 22, 2025 · 3 mentions

George Hotz Goes OFF | Tweet Reactions Oct 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:01 unnamed speaker And so to immediately fast follow with, uh, Sora, uh, very, you know, compute intensive, um, uh, feed of AI media fast followed by this announcement, which presumably will drive subscriptions.

Alexis Ohanian on TikTok's Frozen Innovation, Gaming Reddit & Sports vs AI Oct 13, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:57 Jordi Hays Is what we think of as a social media platform even harder to build now when you think of you're going up against generative media platforms that, you know, like Sora and like, uh, Vibes that are basically saying we'll spend hundreds of…
  • ▶ 13:38 John Coogan They did Sora.
  • ▶ 20:58 Jordi Hays I've seen some pitches over the last couple years of people, ah, selling this vision of, like, Instagram, but it's just you and a million bots, or, and, and so that feels like the social network, the AI, the echo, well, it feels like a…

Sam Altman on Sora, Social Media, The Future of AI, and More Oct 10, 2025 · 42 mentions

  • ▶ 0:19 John Coogan Uh, I've been enjoying Sora a ton. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:31 John Coogan Uh, why no ads in Sora on day one? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:19 John Coogan I'm interested to know about specific, like, uh, specific breakthroughs that you've noticed that Sora to the model is particularly good at. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:40 Jordi Hays What are you, what kind of indicators are you guys looking at, uh, as Sora can transition from, uh, what it was the second it launched, which was a creative tool. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:21 Bill Peebles And a lot of the metrics that we've been focused on optimizing here are really aligned with making sure as many people as possible are actually like getting their hands on the sword to model itself 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:27 Jordi Hays Allocating compute to Sora versus the rest of the business. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:31 John Coogan What do you think about the fact that people feel, at least, I don't know if they actually can, but it feels like you can still clock GPT-V writing, you know, it's not this, it's that, the M-dash, like, will we still see these artifacts in… 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:34 Jordi Hays How quickly do you want to create an economy on Sora? 6 times in the scene

Weekly Recap: Mark Cuban, Kanye’s Wild Mansion Makeover, China Heads to the Moon, Money in Clipping Aug 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:09 Mark Cuban If you're spending your senior year in college right now, your senior year in high school, even whatever it is, your excess time, and you're learning the difference between Sora and Veo, and you're learning how to do all this video.

Mark Cuban on AI, Career Advice, and Running for President. Aug 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:01 Mark Cuban If you're spending your senior year in college right now, your senior year in high school, even whatever it is, your excess time, and you're learning the difference between Sora and Veo, and you're learning how to do all this video.

DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy Jan 28, 2025 · 3 mentions

How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List) Jan 8, 2025 · 4 mentions

Surviving a VC Holiday Party (ep22) Dec 14, 2024 · 1 mention

FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14) Nov 23, 2024 · 3 mentions

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