Go go China !

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.