Just three months after announcing a three-year partnership with Disney, OpenAI is now discontinuing its Sora AI video platform.

Sora Discontinuing

In a statement today, March 24, 2026, OpenAI announced that they are done with Sora. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built a community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing,” the statement noted. “We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work.”

According to the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI is discontinuing all video AI model efforts with this shutdown. There is not yet a timeline for the shutdown, but OpenAI has noted that they will release it as it becomes available. The company has also said they will let Sora users know how they can save any work they had in the system.

Disney and OpenAI Partnership

When the announcement was made that Disney was partnering with Sora, we reported that Disney was to make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI. As part of the deal, Sora users would be able to access over 200 characters from the Disney canon. That included Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars.

Of the decision to shut down Sora, Disney released a statement (via Variety):

As the nascent AI field advances rapidly, we respect OpenAI’s decision to exit the video generation business and to shift its priorities elsewhere. We appreciate the constructive collaboration between our teams and what we learned from it, and we will continue to engage with AI platforms to find new ways to meet fans where they are while responsibly embracing new technologies that respect IP and the rights of creators.

The statement from Disney suggests there will still be AI integration, likely with user generation in the future, even without Sora.

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