The Unit Economics That Killed Sora: OpenAI's Costly Gamble

Sora's shutdown reveals the brutal reality of consumer AI economics: even visually stunning products cannot survive unsustainable business models. The collapse also exposes how competitive advantages in AI—particularly Google's YouTube training data—can rapidly shift the landscape, forcing capital-intensive companies to ruthlessly prioritize near-term revenue drivers over moonshot projects before investor scrutiny at IPO.