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OpenAI closed Sora applications shortly after launch.

A message currently displayed on the signup page says that account creation is temporarily unavailable due to heavy traffic. On X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company had “significantly underestimated demand” and that it’ll take a while to get everyone access to Sora.

Well that didn’t take long...
Well that didn’t take long...
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