On September 24, the Sora API stops accepting requests.
Kling 3.0 passed Runway Gen-4.
The dirty secret of AI video generation is that nobody ships a single shot.
September 24 is 43 days away. On that date, every request to OpenAI's Videos API will return 410 Gone.
ByteDance quietly opened the Seedance 2.
ByteDance opened the Seedance 2.5 API on August 7, four days after the model went live on Jimeng and Doubao Pro.
Every competitor in video generation right now is sprinting toward the same finish line: longer clips, higher resolution, native audio, photorealistic physics.
Every video model shipped this year has chased the same upgrade: longer duration, higher resolution, smoother motion. MiniMax went somewhere else entirely.
Seedance 2.5 generates thirty seconds of continuous video in one pass.
On February 15, 2024, OpenAI dropped a two-minute compilation of AI-generated video clips that made every creative professional stop scrolling.
Black Forest Labs was the image generation company. FLUX 1 gave developers an open-weight alternative to Midjourney.
Every AI video tool sold you the same lie for the past two years: generate a five-second clip, then another, then another, then pray they look like they belong...
Most video generators ship silence.
Every video generator on the market solves the same problem the same way: generate a few seconds of footage, then stitch clips into something longer.
On September 24, OpenAI will kill the last Sora API endpoints. If you're still running production workloads against them, you have seventy-two days.
The old AI video workflow had a dirty secret: the generation was fast, the editing was not.
Kling v3 sits at the top of the text-to-video arena with a 2017 Elo score. Seedance 2.
Every AI video tool ships a "long video" feature eventually. And every time, the fine print says the same thing: it stitches shorter clips together.
OpenAI's Sora hit peak monthly revenue in December 2025: $540,000.
The standard creative AI workflow in 2026 goes something like this: prompt an image generator, download the PNG, upload it to a video tool, generate a 4-second...