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March 24, 2026

On March 24, 2026, openAI announces that their flagship Sora app and API are shutting down.

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2026 (MMXXVI) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2026th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 26th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2020s decade.

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On March 24, 2026

  1. 2026 OpenAI announces that their flagship Sora app and API are shutting down.

    American artificial intelligence company

    OpenAI Group PBC, doing business as OpenAI, is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) partially controlled by a nonprofit foundation. OpenAI developed the generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) family of large language models, the DALL-E series of text-to-image models, and the Sora series of text-to-video models, which have influenced industry research and commercial applications. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing the AI boom, and widespread interest in generative AI.

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Biruté Galdikas Canadian primatologist and conservationist (1946–2026)
Tracy Kidder American writer (1945–2026)
Mel Schilling Australian TV personality and coach (1972–2026)

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