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Elon's TerraFab Is 50x TSMC | OpenAI Burned $15M a Day on Sora, Then Killed It | ElevenLabs Undercut 4x Overnight | Anthropic's Mythos Leaks | GitLab Founder Treats His Own Cancer With AI | EP06
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OpenAI Kills Sora - Disney's $1B Deal Is Dead
At 10:50 · chapter starts 6:17
OpenAI was reportedly spending $15 million every single day to run Sora, totalling roughly $5.5 billion per year for a social app generating no revenue.
Everyone guessed video — but OpenAI's most compute-intensive product is actually deep research. Every query triggers 15 minutes of autonomous internet browsing. At scale, that dwarfs video generation.
Deep research, not video generation, is the single most expensive product OpenAI runs due to the sheer volume of requests and the internet browsing involved per query.
A miscommunication between Google Cloud and Google AI led Google Cloud to sell $5–10 billion worth of compute to Anthropic around Q3 of last year. Then Gemini 3 launched and usage exploded. Google AI suddenly had no compute for its own flagship model.
