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OpenAI's Sora Tops App Store with 164K Downloads

10/4/2025

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OpenAI's Sora, an AI video-generation app, launched in the U.S. and Canada and quickly hit No. 1 on the U.S. App Store.
It logged 56,000 downloads on day one and 164,000 in two days, outperforming Claude and Copilot.
Google's Gemini AI app shows changes in its code suggesting a visual interface with prompts to compete with Sora; not yet public.

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Story summary

OpenAI's Sora, an AI video-generation app, launched in the U.S. and Canada and quickly hit No. 1 on the U.S. App Store.
It logged 56,000 downloads on day one and 164,000 in two days, outperforming Claude and Copilot.
Google's Gemini AI app shows changes in its code suggesting a visual interface with prompts to compete with Sora; not yet public.