OpenAI's Path to AGI: Kill Sora, Launch a Potato
OpenAI's Path to AGI: Kill Sora, Launch a Potato  
Podcast: AI For Humans: Weekly AI News, Tools & Trends
Published On: Fri Mar 27 2026
Description: OpenAI killed Sora, cancelled Spicy Chat, and went all in on enterprise and AGI. Their next frontier model is called Spud. Yes, like the potato.  This week on AI For Humans, we dig into OpenAI's massive pivot as they kill Sora entirely, cancel their Disney deal, shut down 'Citrus Mode', and go full defense mode against Anthropic. Their next hope? A new frontier model called Spud that Sam Altman says could accelerate the economy. Plus, Google drops Gemini 3.1 Flash Live with better audio and video agents, Google's new Lyra3 Pro model brings AI-generated music and audio, Mistral launches an open-source voice model, Runway debuts multi-shot video, Meta reveals TRIBE v2 which can predict your thoughts from brain scans, a fully autonomous ping-pong robot called SMASH, and CapCut is ready to grab all that Sora traffic. OPENAI CANCELLED THE FUTURE OF VIDEO. BET IT ALL ON A POTATO.  #ai #ainews #openai Come to our Discord: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ // Show Links // OpenAI CEO Preps Spud: New Frontier AI Model Coming in Weeks https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-shifts-responsibilities-preps-spud-ai-model?rc=c3oojq&shared=2c9eeb0b22b15948 OpenAI Cancels Spicy Chat and Refocuses on Enterprise https://www.ft.com/content/de9bf0af-b241-424f-8229-5870b1c0d93d?syn-25a6b1a6=1 Sora Going Away Completely and Disney Deal Cancelled https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w3e467ewqo CapCut Ready to Take Sora's Traffic https://x.com/capcutapp/status/2036943209956344181?s=20 Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Blog Post https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-live/ Google Lyra3 Pro: New AI Audio and Music Model https://x.com/Google/status/2036836307612119488?s=20 TurboQuant from Google Research https://x.com/GoogleResearch/status/2036533564158910740 Voxtral TTS Blog Post https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-tts Runway Multi-Shot Video App https://x.com/runwayml/status/2037170118669500537?s=20 Gavin's First Try With Runway Multi-Shot https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2037191271106961881?s=20 Meta TRIBE v2 Demo https://aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/ SMASH Project Page https://mmlab.hk/Smash/