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Sora is officially shutting down.
This is incorrect. OpenAI has not shut down Sora; it has continued Sora as Sora 2, while only retiring the older Sora 1 experience in some regions.
Full reasoning
OpenAI’s official materials show that Sora itself remains active. OpenAI announced Sora 2 as its current flagship video model and said it was launching a new Sora app. OpenAI’s Sora 1 Sunset FAQ then clarified that the change in March 2026 was the retirement of Sora 1, the older legacy experience, for U.S. users—not the shutdown of Sora as a product. The same FAQ explicitly says users can continue generating videos using Sora 2. OpenAI’s release notes also document ongoing updates to Sora after that date, including February 2026 feature rollouts. So saying “Sora is officially shutting down” overstates the change and misleads readers about the current availability of the product.
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- Sora 2 is here | OpenAI
Today we’re releasing Sora 2, our flagship video and audio generation model... launching a new social iOS app just called “Sora,” powered by Sora 2.
- Sora 1 Sunset – FAQ | OpenAI Help Center
Sora is evolving, and we’re moving to a single, updated experience powered by Sora 2... You can continue generating videos using Sora 2, which becomes the default Sora experience after March 13, 2026 (US only).
- Sora - Release Notes | OpenAI Help Center
February 9, 2026... Rolling out today on the Sora iOS app and Sora.com to all users, everywhere Sora is available.
Despite ByteDance’s significant contributions to AI, they have not released any open weight models, as confirmed by the absence of such models on Hugging Face.
This is false. ByteDance’s Seed team has publicly released open-weight models, including Seed-Coder and Seed-OSS, on GitHub and Hugging Face.
Full reasoning
ByteDance has released open-weight models. Its Seed team published Seed-Coder in May 2025 as an open-source family of code LLMs and explicitly says the models are publicly available on Hugging Face. ByteDance also released Seed-OSS in August 2025, describing it as a series of open-source large language models released under the Apache-2.0 license, with model pages hosted on Hugging Face. Those official ByteDance repositories directly contradict the claim that ByteDance has not released any open-weight models or that Hugging Face lacks them.
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- ByteDance-Seed/Seed-Coder · GitHub
We are thrilled to introduce Seed-Coder... a family of lightweight yet powerful open-source code LLMs... All the models are publicly available on Hugging Face collection.
- ByteDance-Seed/seed-oss · GitHub
Seed-OSS is a series of open-source large language models developed by ByteDance's Seed Team... We release this series of models to the open-source community under the Apache-2.0 license.
- ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct · Hugging Face
Seed-OSS is a series of open-source large language models developed by ByteDance's Seed Team... We release this series of models to the open-source community under the Apache-2.0 license.