Photo taken from VCG/Getty Images In a surprising move this week, OpenAI has officially decided to shut down Sora, its high-profile AI video generation platform, less than a year after launching it as a standalone app. What was Sora? Sora was OpenAI's ambitious AI tool that could generate realistic, cinematic videos from text prompts. It quickly went viral after launch in 2025, hitting massive download numbers and becoming one of the most talked-about AI products. But despite