OpenAI Made a Huge Mistake With the Launch of Sora
History repeats itself
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, took to X yesterday to say something that everybody was already thinking: OpenAI made a huge mistake with the launch of Sora.
In Altman’s words, “We significantly underestimated demand for Sora.”
Thousands of OpenAI users watched the company’s live announcement of Sora yesterday, popped over to the new Sora.com, and tried to sign in.
Rather than finding a powerful AI video generation tool, they got a maddening message saying that Sora account creation was not possible due to high demand.
That stings, given that millions of people are already paying $20 per month for a ChatGPT Plus subscription.
It probably hurt even more, though, for OpenAI Pro users. Just last week, the company launched a $200 per month Pro tier for ChatGPT, aimed at the heaviest users in academia, business, and research.
Even those extremely well-heeled users couldn’t get basic access to the new AI video…
