April 1 News.OpenAI Launched last week, the Image Generation feature has quickly gone viral, creating huge demand for its powerful capabilities.
However, the explosion of this feature has also put a huge strain on OpenAI's traffic. On Monday, OpenAI announced that it had temporarily disabled the ability of the Sora new userVideo GenerationFeature. In a notice on its support page, the company said, "We are currently experiencing high traffic pressure and have temporarily disabled the Sora video generation feature for new accounts. If you've never logged into Sora before, you can still use Sora for image generation."
1AI notes that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on the X platform over the weekend that the company has struggled to keep up with demand for the feature since its launch, and that employees have had to work extra hours, even on weekends, to keep the service up and running.
