Wasn't video generation one of their big stepping stones towards AGI? "Simulating worlds", reasoning about physics and real world interactions and all that?

Or are they still doing that behind the scenes and just decided that offering it to the public isn't profitable?

> As we focus and compute demand grows, the Sora research team continues to focus on world simulation research to advance robotics that will help people solve real-world, physical tasks.

— https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-discontinues-sora-vid...

So yeah, focusing on world models

probably the latter imo, it’s not like they are going to delete all their SORA work