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The AI Video Apps Gaining Ground After OpenAI Declared Sora Dead

Rival tools such as Kling AI, RunwayML and Vidu have all seen user gains in the week since OpenAI said it would shutter its Sora AI video generator.

The Sora app.

Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg

A week after OpenAI said it would shutter its artificial intelligence video generator, Sora, rival tools like Kling AI and RunwayML are already gaining ground.

Kling AI, a video generator app owned by China’s Kuaishou Technology, saw global weekly active users jump 4% to an average of 2.6 million last week from the prior week, according to iOS and Android data that market intelligence firm Sensor Tower shared with Bloomberg News.