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Seven weeks left for Sora 2: OpenAI's video API shuts down on 24 September, with no successor named
OpenAI's deprecation table now puts a hard date on the most talked-about video model of 2025: sora-2, sora-2-pro and every dated snapshot (sora-2-2025-10-06, sora-2-2025-12-08, sora-2-pro-2025-10-06) stop working on 24 September 2026. The Videos API endpoint that served them is being retired at the same time. The withdrawal was announced on 24 March 2026, which leaves roughly seven weeks for anything still generating video through OpenAI. The detail worth noticing is the empty column. OpenAI's deprecation entries normally point developers at a replacement model; the Sora rows list none, and no successor video model has been announced. That makes this a rare case of a major lab leaving a product category rather than upgrading within it — a model that was less than a year old, arrived with synchronized dialogue and sound, plausible object physics and consent-controlled cameos of real people, and shipped an app that put AI video in front of a mass audience. Sora 2 keeps its profile in our catalogue. We do not delete profiles when a model is retired, and the entry has been rewritten to state the shutdown date, the API tiers and pricing as they stood, and the fact that industry reports of the consumer app closing in April 2026 go beyond what OpenAI's own documentation confirms.
Sora 2 →White House puts a voluntary frontier-model testing framework on the table
In the first days of August 2026 the White House gathered the largest American AI developers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta — to walk them through a finished framework for government safety testing of frontier models. The document itself has not been published. What is known about the mechanism comes from reporting rather than from an official text. Participation is opt-in: a developer may hand a model over to the government for evaluation for up to 30 days before public release, and the framework may also stipulate which trusted partners get early access. It is explicitly not a licensing regime — the administration has ruled out turning it into mandatory preclearance, and there is no enforcement mechanism behind it. The framework grew out of a June 2026 executive order on AI and cybersecurity, which told the administration's cyber team to build tests of whether American frontier models can facilitate cyberattacks. Who will actually run the evaluations is still unsettled: some reporting points to the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at the Commerce Department, other accounts to the Office of the National Cyber Director, with the NSA also named as a candidate. For the catalogue this matters in a practical way. If the largest laboratories join in, a 30-day pre-release evaluation window becomes part of the release calendar for models such as the Claude, GPT and Gemini families — a step between "model finished" and "model available" that until now did not exist in the United States.