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.