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David Crowther & Rani Molla10/6/25

OpenAI’s social app for AI videos, Sora, spent the weekend at the top of the App Store rankings

Last week OpenAI unveiled Sora, an AI-only social media app for its latest text-to-video generation model Sora 2. Despite the obvious threat of copyright lawsuits from just about every major studio, artist, or creative owner, the app’s release has prompted a deluge of AI slop invading social media feeds on TikTok, Instagram, X, Threads, Reddit, and more.

But the true home for the always bizarre, often realistic, and occasionally funny clips was on its dedicated iOS social app where they were made.

Designed for people to “create, remix each other’s generations” and “discover new videos in a customizable Sora feed,” the app allows users to bring themselves into videos via cameos. They can also “cameo” others. And, while that might creep some people out, others are apparently loving it. The currently invite-only app spent the weekend at the top of the free App Store in the US, after bumping Google’s Gemini from the top slot last week.

Per data from Appfigures, Sora continued to beat out rival AI apps like Gemini and sister app ChatGPT to the top spot over the weekend. You are going to see a lot more AI-generated videos over the coming years. Brace yourself.

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When OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene in November 2022, it sent shock waves through Silicon Valley’s biggest names. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon had all been developing generative AI, but OpenAI’s breakthrough sparked an all-out race to catch up. Until now.

It seems that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is feeling the heat from Google, whose newly released Gemini 3 has been receiving stellar reception from AI leaderboards, analysts, and consumers alike.

“We know we have some work to do but we are catching up fast,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told colleagues last month, after learning about Google’s AI advances, The Information reports. “I expect the vibes out there to be rough for a bit.”

Google’s AI progress, Altman said, could “create some temporary economic headwinds for our company,” but he said OpenAI would emerge on top.

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It seems that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is feeling the heat from Google, whose newly released Gemini 3 has been receiving stellar reception from AI leaderboards, analysts, and consumers alike.

“We know we have some work to do but we are catching up fast,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told colleagues last month, after learning about Google’s AI advances, The Information reports. “I expect the vibes out there to be rough for a bit.”

Google’s AI progress, Altman said, could “create some temporary economic headwinds for our company,” but he said OpenAI would emerge on top.

However, it’s worth remembering that, despite OpenAI’s first-mover advantage and supersized valuation, Google is a substantial adversary that is peppering its AI models across its giant existing — and highly lucrative — product suite.

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