Sora’s downloads in its first week was nearly as big as ChatGPT’s launch

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Sora’s downloads in its first week was nearly as big as ChatGPT’s launch

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After OpenAI’s video-generating app Sora surged to the No. 1 position on the U.S. App Store, it has now, technically, experienced a bigger first week than ChatGPT on iOS, according to new data from app intelligence provider Appfigures. Its estimates show that Sora saw 627,000 iOS…

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