OpenAI shut down its consumer video tool Sora — reportedly losing $1 million per day in compute costs — and disbanded its science research unit Prism, TechCrunch reports. VP of Science Kevin Weil, who had moved from CPO to lead the science initiative in October 2025, is leaving the company along with Bill Peebles, the researcher who architected Sora. The departures signal OpenAI's broader shift away from experimental consumer projects — which leadership calls "side quests" — toward enterprise AI and its forthcoming superapp.