OpenAI's TikTok on AI trends reached one million downloads more quickly than ChatGPT.
OpenAI's video-generation and social media app, Sora, reached one million downloads faster than the company's popular chatbot, ChatGPT.
Key details about the app's launch:
App Name: Sora (which is also the name of OpenAI's text-to-video model, Sora 2, used within the app).
Time to One Million Downloads: Sora hit the one million download milestone in less than five days.
Comparison to ChatGPT: This was reported by an OpenAI executive to be even faster than the time it took for the ChatGPT app to reach the same number of downloads. ChatGPT is widely reported to have reached one million users (not just downloads) in five days.
Platform Style: The app is a short-form vertical video social network, often described as a "TikTok competitor" or "TikTok-like." All the videos on the feed are AI-generated.
Access Restrictions: The rapid growth is notable because, unlike ChatGPT's initial public release, Sora's launch was invite-only and initially limited to users in North America.
The term "AI slop" is a critical and colloquial term used by some to refer to the flood of low-effort, algorithmically generated content. The app's ability to quickly generate a high volume of videos from simple text prompts, and its social media format, led to it being labeled this way by some in the press and on social media.
OpenAI's TikTok on AI trends reached one million downloads more quickly than ChatGPT.
Yenumula . Contributing Reporter
Published on October 13 2025
Microsoft has debuted its first proprietary, in-house-developed text-to-image generator, named MAI-Image-1.
This launch is a significant step in Microsoft's strategy to build its own portfolio of AI models, which is seen as a way to reduce its dependence on its long-standing partner, OpenAI.2 The model joins other homegrown tools released earlier, such as the voice generator MAI-Voice-1 and the chatbot MAI-1-preview, as part of what Microsoft's AI division calls an "enormous five-year roadmap."
Key Features and Performance:
Focus on Photorealism: A primary goal of MAI-Image-1 is to deliver highly photorealistic imagery, a feature Microsoft collaborated on with creative professionals to achieve. It is said to excel at realistic details, including natural lighting effects, reflections, and landscapes.
Avoiding Generic Styles: Microsoft specifically designed the model to avoid the "repetitive or generically-stylized outputs" often seen with other AI generators.
Speed and Efficiency: The company touts MAI-Image-1's speed, claiming it can process prompts and generate images faster than many larger, slower competing models. This efficiency is intended to help creators iterate quickly.
Early Ranking: The model has already secured a spot in the top 10 on LMArena's text-to-image leaderboard, a public crowdsourced benchmarking platform where users compare and vote on AI-generated images.
Availability
MAI-Image-1 is currently being tested on the LMArena platform.10 Microsoft has confirmed plans to integrate the new image generator into its consumer products, including Copilot and Bing Image Creator, "very soon."
Microsoft has debuted its first proprietary, in-house-developed text-to-image generator, named MAI-Image-1.
Yenumula . Contributing Reporter
Published on October 14 2025
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