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🤖OpenAI Kills Sora, Raises $122B as Industry Realigns
The Rundown: OpenAI is abandoning its Sora video generation product to focus on building one AI super app, while raising a record $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation.
The details:
- ●Greg Brockman revealed the company will merge ChatGPT, Codex, and browser into one super app
- ●Anthropic is attracting over $2 billion in investor cash while OpenAI shares drop on secondary markets
- ●OpenAI expects AGI within a couple years with their new Spud model containing two years of research
- ●Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code's full source code, revealing unannounced KAIROS autonomous agent
Why it matters: The pivot from specialized AI tools to unified platforms signals a major strategic shift in AI product strategy. For founders, this demonstrates how compute constraints can force difficult product decisions even at massive scale. The investor flight from OpenAI to Anthropic also shows how quickly market sentiment can shift in AI, making execution speed critical.
📰 Source: The Neuron