If the issue with Sora is compute cost, then shutting down the entire platform — including Sora 1 — doesn’t make much sense.
Sora 1’s image generation was one of the few systems that actually delivered contextually coherent results. For fields like historical research and documentary content, that level of understanding is rare and extremely valuable.
If Sora 2 (video) is too resource-intensive, fine — scale that down or remove it. But Sora 1 could have been preserved as a high-quality image generation tool. It already had a strong foundation and a clear use case.
From a user perspective, it feels like a mistake to discard something that was not only a first mover, but also genuinely ahead in terms of output quality and contextual accuracy.
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