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Sora

By OpenAI

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MentionsWhy humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026)

“we recently shipped the Sora Android app.”

Speaker: Alexander Embiricos▶ Watch at ~46:30approx.

MentionsThe 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon

“Like I I think a lot about Sora”

Speaker: Edwin Chen▶ Watch at ~27:00approx.

UsesOpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more

“now I can use Sora our video model and I can get 50 different variations of this cut scene”

Speaker: Kevin Weil▶ Watch at ~1:12:30approx.

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