Killing Sora was one of the worst mistakes they ever made
That announcement is when I stopped paying attention to them.
Text-to-text is dead, has been since Mistral 7b.
Solved problem (you guys like that one don’t you)
They also demoted themselves from “authority on AI” to “in over our heads” by bowing out in the pathetically defeatist way they did at the worst time possible (Hailuo/MiniMax/Vidu coming up) - they naturally completely missed the wave on audio with random companies like Singify taking that market for free.
They just bowed out. They didn’t try. They didn’t try anything more than baseline text-to-text and they aren’t good at that (or code) either, compared to what others are doing.
It’s a really bad position to be in if you’re trying to be an Apple or Microsoft.
To have a mediocre product and then can’t even serve 75% of the mainstream use case.
And in pure qualitative terms, I'd agree that NB2/NB Pro are still on par with gpt-image-2, but gpt-image-2 is far easier to steer and is significantly better in terms of prompt adherence.