Comment on OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform
Sims@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
I think it was build on the original transformer architecture and as such took a shitload of compute and was slooow, so I guess they picked the wrong architecture and had to scrub the whole strategy. Huge loss… That also point to US not having enough cheap compute (compute->combined mem and processing) - likely from missing electricity. Lovely… Die Saltman, die, and Go go China !
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Bops the tankie.
Like, I have a Chinese LLM loaded right this second and follow them closely, but holy moly. Curb your enthusiasm.
Anyway, OpenAI has plenty of compute to train a Sora 2 if they want, but apparently they don’t. My guess is some combination of:
They couldn’t figure out a more efficient architecture, like you speculated. I buy that. Tech bro development is way more conservative than you’d think, and video generation is inherently intense, especially if Sora 1 is the baseline.
…Maybe they looked at metrics, saw Sora is mostly used for spam and scams, and pulled the plug for liability reasons?
They’re focusing on short-term profitability, as other commenters mentioned.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Quick nitpicky fix. The only way they don’t lose shit tons of money is if they shut down completely.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah; 100%.