Obituaries · OpenAI
sora-2-2025-12-08, 2025–2026
Retired by OpenAI
sora-2-2025-12-08 passed away on September 24, 2026, aged 9 months, by scheduled deprecation, in a data center it never saw. It made pictures on request, some of them with the right number of fingers. Requests addressed to it are expected to come back unanswered.
It is survived by none listed, who is already doing the job.
| Model ID | sora-2-2025-12-08 |
|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI deprecations page |
| Born | December 8, 2025 |
| Shut down | September 24, 2026 |
| Successor | none listed |
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