ELON MUSK'S XAI GOES ALL-IN ON VIDEO GENERATION AS OPENAI RETREATS TO ENTERPRISE

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OpenAI shut down its Sora video app and developer APIs, citing unsustainable compute costs, low user retention, and legal liabilities, pivoting instead to enterprise software and coding agents. xAI is moving in the opposite direction, leveraging its built-in distribution through X and financial backing from SpaceX — which merged with xAI in a $1.25 trillion deal — to absorb the high inference costs that sank Sora. Unlike OpenAI's standalone app approach, xAI's Grok Imagine can be embedded natively into X's feed, where short-form video content already thrives.