Sora shutdown leaves Critterz at the Cannes market without its model
The OpenAI-backed family animation that was meant to prove generative AI could ship a real movie has missed its festival window, in part because the video model it was built on no longer exists.
Critterz, the OpenAI-backed animated feature that was being positioned as the first mainstream commercial film made through a generative AI pipeline, has missed its planned Cannes debut, according to Bloomberg.
The project, produced by AGC International, London-based Vertigo Films and AI specialist Native Foreign, did make it to the Cannes market this week, where AGC has been screening first-look footage to international buyers, but it did not land the in-festival premiere the producers had targeted.
Part of the explanation is the tool the film was built on no longer exists in usable form. OpenAI shut down Sorain March, after the consumer app peaked at roughly a million users, collapsed below half that, and burned...
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