Why did OpenAI decide to shut down its robotics and Sora projects?
Replied bySam Altman
Co-founder & CEO at OpenAI
Niche: AI
Revenue: Approx. $2 Billion/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2015
We must continuously focus on our critical path. When GPT-3 succeeded, we shut down robotics to focus on language models. Recently, when coding agents began showing massive, compounding growth, we made the painful decision to pause Sora and the browser to redirect resources.
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