OpenAI's Sora AI Video App Hits 1 Million Downloads

[MacRumors]

Sora, OpenAI's app for creating AI-generated video, has been downloaded more than one million times. OpenAI's Sora lead, Bill Peebles, shared the information on social media network X last night.

Peebles said that Sora hit one million app downloads even faster than ChatGPT did, with interest in the app soaring despite the fact that it's invite only and only available in the U.S. and Canada at the current time.

Sora was released at the end of September. It's designed to generate AI videos using realistic videos of real people and their friends. Each user uploads a "cameo" or short video, which they can then use with AI prompts.

The app includes an option for users to share their cameos, allowing select people or anyone on Sora to generate AI video with their likeness. Sora has been criticized for producing AI slop, but that hasn't affected its popularity. It continues to be the top free app on Apple's App Store.

Sora uses OpenAI's Sora 2 video generation model that can handle complex movements for realistic, cinematic, and anime-style video. Sora 2 supports generating audio, so all the video creations on Sora are accompanied by sound.

OpenAI designed Sora to display content based on people the user follows or interacts with, and the app polls users regularly on their wellbeing. There are controls to modify what's displayed in a feed, and OpenAI says that it is meant to be used with friends, which is why it's invite only.

Sora is free to download, and OpenAI is not restricting video generation to subscribers for now. [Direct Link]

Article Link: OpenAI's Sora AI Video App Hits 1 Million Downloads

 

[MacUserFella]

And yet half of them cant use it because they need an invite code

 

[Nom4d]

This shows a clear demand for products like this.

 

[ikir]

Machine learning and AI tools are great but generative AI is pretty dangerous considering how illiterate people are

 

[Phazer]

Or simple curiosity.

 

[zakarhino]

The app sucks, I don't use it. But I do see some funny AI slop clips on TikTok which is ironic considering OpenAI want to compete with TikTok using this app.

 

[Zapski]

Pass

 

[spaxxedout]

Phill Schiller and Eddy Cue are on there. I mean, it's not the Tevanian / Rubenstein podcast we all want, but it's something.

OpenAI's hands were forced with this - open models are getting super performant and society needs to be exposed to the SOTA so the conversation can be had.

 

[Darakian]

maybe it's just me, but 1 million downloads in 9 days doesn't sound all that impressive in 2025

 

[Trusteft]

I want to throw up.

 

[Nom4d]

maybe it's just me, but 1 million downloads in 9 days doesn't sound all that impressive in 2025

How many million should it be then?

 

[Darakian]

I dunno, but fallout 76 did a million in a day

https://twitter.com/x/status/1782857892409778254

 

[dustin_]

slop app built for our slop future of slop.

 

[Rafagon]

Polls users on their wellbeing?

Is this like to make sure they're not losing their minds while using the app?!

 

[mdatwood]

My friends and I have been having a great time with Sora. Some videos are really well done and some are terrible, but all of them end up entertaining. The time it takes to generate is almost a feature because it builds anticipation and makes you think about the prompt.

 

[CalMin]

It's invite only and I don't have an invite!

How did 1 million peeps get ahead of me. I'm a ChatGPT Plus user!!

 

[jdawgnoonan]

AI Slop for all!

 

[garranhado]

maybe it's just me, but 1 million downloads in 9 days doesn't sound all that impressive in 2025

Note: It is not available worldwide, here in Europe it is not yet available.

 

[tfresquezdxs]

It's invite only soo no , it's not functional for everyone

 

[sprintsucks]

I couldn't get any prompt to work and they were all boring stuff like "a car going up a hill". Are they secretly forcing only using people's faces when making videos?

 

[turbineseaplane]

Disgusting company with zero moral or ethical standards.

I hope they collapse.

 

[eifelbube]

Sora, OpenAI's app for creating AI-generated video, has been downloaded more than one million times. …

At this download rate and the slop onslaught to come from it, no wonder OpenAI is investing $100b into data center buildout. Residential electricity bills will go up partially because millions of Sora 2 addicts will produce fake content of no value to society — this at a time when the Potus and GOP puppets have eliminated almost $8b in clean energy funding. Mindblowing.

 

[eifelbube]

And yet half of them cant use it because they need an invite code

That is still 500k too many downloading AI junkware.

 

[xbjllb]

It's invite only soo no , it's not functional for everyone

I imagine they check all the cameo uploads and are only picking hotties.

 

[eifelbube]

Note: It is not available worldwide, here in Europe it is not yet available.

That is good news. I hope it will never be available anywhere else. AI ToysR US.