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Disney ends OpenAI partnership after Sora app and API shut down

Disney has ended its partnership with OpenAI following the discontinuation of Sora's consumer app and developer API, which were shut down months after their December 2024 launch. Disney had integrated Sora into production creative workflows; OpenAI has announced no replacement.

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Disney has ended its partnership with OpenAI after OpenAI discontinued Sora, its video generation platform, months after the product's public launch in December 2024. OpenAI shut down both the Sora consumer app and its developer API without announcing a replacement or migration path. Disney had integrated Sora into production creative workflows; the shutdown left that integration without a foundation.

The exit is a direct consequence of killing a product with no successor. Enterprise partnerships built on API access collapse when the API does. OpenAI may face additional partner losses from the same cause.

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