OpenAI Just Killed Sora. Disney Lost $1 Billion.

OpenAI shut down Sora on March 24. One million downloads in five days. Disney committed $1 billion. Six months later - dead. Not because it failed. Because compute costs killed it. Every second of AI video burns GPU cycles that could run ChatGPT - which actually makes money. OpenAI is valued at $730 billion. They cannot afford to waste chips on a product with no revenue path. Disney pulled the $1B deal. The pattern is always the same: ship hype, get addicted to metrics, kill quietly when the bill arrives. I manage 62 Azure subscriptions. Every resource has a cost justification. Plan for cost, not hype. devopsdive.com #Sora #OpenAI #AI #Disney #DevOps #CloudCosts #Infrastructure #Engineering