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OpenAI plans to combine Codex, ChatGPT and Atlas in «super app»

Feeling that OpenAI has lost focus, attention turns to putting all eggs in one basket. (Picture: generated)
According to The Wall Street Journal, the new app will include agentic capabilities, and signals another step in the company’s recent quest to refocus on coding and business users.

The app will make it easier for teams within OpenAI to work together, the WSJ reports, and will help other users with productivity-related tasks, as they double down on enterprise users.

The standalone ChatGPT app will not be affected by the move, although the paper notes that OpenAI feels it has lost attention by focusing on «side quests» like the Sora app — now rumored to get included in ChatGPT proper.

OpenAI’s Fidji Simo will be leading the super app effort, and she tweets that:

— When new bets start to work, like we’re seeing now with Codex, it’s very important to double down on them and avoid distractions.

Read more: The Wall Street Journal and CNBC.

Sora 2 video generation could be heading for ChatGPT «soon»

Sora video generation in ChatGPT would expand access, but also increase costs. (Picture: generated)
The Information and ChatGPT-watcher Tibor Blaho are both reporting an upcoming release of video generation in the main ChatGPT app.

According to The Information’s x.com post, the release seems imminent, while Blaho has spotted Sora generation mentions and ID’s in the latest Andoid beta ChatGPT App.

Sora 2 was launched as a quasi social network with its own app in October 2025 and was invite-only.

Judging by early search interest on Google for «Sora invite code» soon after launch, interest for the app greatly exceeded capacity and available invites.

It produces 10-second clips from prompts or pictures and promises to put your likeness in anything you can imagine. It briefly went viral, running up some 920 million weekly users before dropping from #1 to #165 in the App Store.

Putting the app’s features into the mainline GPT app will bring it up to par with Google’s AI subscriptions, which gives users access to the video generator Veo 3 on the $25 Pro plan.

Read more: The Information (paywalled), Tibor Blaho on X, and Reuters.

Disney invests $1 billion in cross-licensing deal for characters in Sora

Disney licenses beloved characters for use on Sora, and will get to use OpenAI tools in production.
While Disney is licensing to OpenAI, they are fighting other hard over others’ copyright violations. (Picture: andy orin, CC BY 2.0)
Users will be able to use Disney characters without breaking copyrights, in return for Disney getting to use the technology internally for three years.

The deal will license some 200 Disney-owned characters from the likes of Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars for use in Sora, free of charge (as in money) and charges (as in lawsuits).

The deal will also see Disney adopt ChatGPT and Sora internally, which is the other way of the license — helping Disney do everything from light sketches to development planning.

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OpenAI can’t use the word «Cameo» inside and outside of Sora

OpenAI is now barred from using the "Cameo" word, which is a major feature in the Sora 2 generator
Sora 2 is barred from making use to the term until December 22, when a new hearing will be held. (Picture: generated)
Sora’s launch wasn’t just about the ability to make realistic short-form videos, but heavily featured the «Cameo» ability.

This lets you create custom characters of friends or yourself and re-use your «Cameo» in different settings.

Not so fast, said the makers of the real «Cameo,» which sells custom-made celebrity videos or greetings. This is their whole business model, and they promptly sued to get their name back.

Now, U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee has granted a temporary restraining order on the use of the word by OpenAI — inside the app and elsewhere — until a hearing can be held on whether or not the ban should be made permanent on December 22.

Read more: scoop by CNBC, writeups by Engadget and Gizmodo

OpenAI estimated to lose daily $15 million on Sora videos

Video is more expensive than text, and OpenAI is currently bleeding money on free Sora 2 generations.
Sora 2 generations are bleeding money for OpenAI, and they say they will reduce the number of free «gens.» (Picture: generated)
There are no official figures on just how much the free Sora service costs, but Forbes has done the math.

It works out by putting a price of $1.30 per video from GPU costs, multiplying it to an estimated 4.5 million users and then presuming that about 25% on average generate ten videos per day.

$15 million per day works out to a cool $5.4 billion annual bill.

That’s a lot of money, and Bill Peebles, head of Sora, recently said that «eventually we will need to bring the free gens down to accommodate growth (we won’t have enough gpus to do it otherwise!), but we’ll be transparent as it happens.»

Read the full story on Forbes

Weekend roundup; expanded Sora, security research and the battle for India

For a limited time, Sora is available without invite codes for select countries, but the 30 generations per day limit may have to go.
No more invite codes for select countries in Sora 2, and bevy of new features. (Picture: generated)

Sora 2 expands, is now available without invite codes
Following the massive success of the Sora 2 video generator, OpenAI is opening up the service for those without invite codes in the USA, Canada, Japan and Korea «for a limited time.» Simultaneously, they are announcing reusable characters that can feature in more than one video and an easier way to stitch videos together. If that wasn’t enough, OpenAI is adding more video generations for power users hitting the 30-per-day generation limits and letting them pay for more gens. They are also musing about letting rightsholders get compensation for the reuse of their characters, as a means of getting paid for your work on the platform. They do warn that 30 gens needs too many GPUs and will be throttled at some stage.
More at: MacRumors and a Twitter announcement, list of available countries.

OpenAI reveals security research agent in beta
The new agent, Aardvark, will look through code repositories at scale almost like a human would, and find errors and exploits before the bad guys do. It will continually analyze your source code and find vulnerabilities. The agent has already been used to find «numerous» vulnerabilities in open source software, and OpenAI will provide pro bono scanning to «select, non-commercial» OSS systems. Aardvark is not being widely released, existing instead as a private beta inside OpenAI’s offices, kind of like Google’s CodeMender.
More at OpenAI’s announcement and ZDNet.

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Weekend roundup: ChatGPT Go expands, Gemini Enterprise, reckognition for Genie and a familiar face

Sora 2 reaches a million downloads in five days -- faster than even ChatGPT did it.
Sora 2 has become one of the hottest app on the App Store, shattering previous records. (Picture: OpenAI)

Sora hits 1 million downloads in five days
In what may be the fastest rush to the milestone, OpenAI’s Sora chief, Bill Peebles, just tweeted that they matched it faster than even ChatGPT. This is despite being limited by invites and only being available in North America, he points out. On the other hand, the copyright «slop» shows no signs of abating. California’s Creative Artists Agency, one of the largest around, are now warning of «significant risk» from the app, and saying creators deserve to be paid for their intellectual property.
More at: CNBC, TechCrunch and Engadget.

OpenAI delivers ChatGPT Go in slew of countries
After launching in India in August, and later expanding to Indonesia, the cost-effective new ChatGPT tier now becomes available in 18, mostly Asian, countries. The subscription offers slightly more access and should give 10x more messages, image generations than the Free tier and cost around $4.5 in local currencies.
More at: Nick Turley’s launch tweet, TechCrunch.

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Altman hints at monetization for Sora 2, protections for rightsholders

People are using Sora 2 much more than expected, leading to higher server loads and higher costs.
OpenAI is looking for ways to make money off of their astronomical success with Sora 2. (Picture: OpenAI)
In a blog post today, the OpenAI CEO says they have reached out to copyright holders about their content — and that they will «make some missteps» on the road to making money off the Sora 2 app.

— We have been learning quickly from how people are using Sora and taking feedback from users, rightsholders, and other interested groups, Altman writes in his blog.

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Weekend roundup: Sora 2 after 2 days, Comet is free and Disney on copyrights

Copyrights holders are urged to opt out of Sora 2 use, but there seems no easy way to do it.
SpongeBob is a popular character for Sora 2 users. One can wonder for how long. (Picture: screenshot)

Sora 2 spews copyrighted materials all over
After a couple of days in the wild, OpenAIs new video generator spews nazi SpongeBobs, stealing Picachus and just about everything you can imagine from Darth Vader to Mickey Mouse and other protected IPs. Apparently, OpenAI has been in talks with movie studios urging them to opt out if they disagree with their IP use. Disney did just that, but it hasn’t helped much, it seems.
More at: 404 media, Gizmodo, Axios.

UPDATE: You can get Sora 2 invite codes here, on a pay if forward-basis, if you just promise to leave some codes back where you got them. [Turns out they are empty. You could maybe try again later.]

Perplexity frees the Comet browser
Their AI agentic browser was previously only available for those who paid for a $200 monthly membership, and amassed a 2 million person queue for downloads. Now Perplexity is making it free. You can also subscribe for $5 per month to select media sources that will get paid for inclusion in the results. The browser can summarize Slack chats, get directions from maps, and even pull specific points in YouTube videos for you. It should also be better at distinguishing AI slop from genuine, human made content. You can download it here.
More at: Business Insider, Engadget.

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OpenAI launches video generator Sora 2 as a social app with «cameos»


OpenAI’s Sora 2 introduction sure looks impressive.

The idea is that people can use the latest and greatest video generation tool to insert themselves in scenes along with their friends — with so-called «cameos.»

The new video model should be significantly better at adhering to physics, and could be a «ChatGPT-3.5-moment for video,» OpenAI says.

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