Sources
Every number in an AI Skill Drops reel comes from a paper, a filing or named reporting. Scroll to the reel you watched, or tap its keyword, to read the source yourself.
Why OpenAI shut down Sora
Sora hit a million downloads in under five days. Six months later OpenAI closed the app. Here is where the numbers come from.
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- OpenAI help centre: the Sora discontinuation
- TechCrunch / Appfigures: downloads and in-app spending
- Forbes: the $15M a day estimate
- CNBC: CFO Sarah Friar, 24 Mar 2026
Researched and scripted with Claude, which is made by Anthropic, an OpenAI competitor. The cost figure is an outside estimate and is labelled as one. Checked 13 Nov 2026.
Anthropic's IPO filing, in numbers
825 million shares at $70 to $78, $33B of revenue in nine months, and a $104B loss that is mostly on paper. Every figure comes from the prospectus unless marked.
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Researched and scripted with Claude, which is made by Anthropic. Not investment advice. Checked 12 Nov 2026.
How much energy one AI video uses
One 8-second clip from an open video model used 390 Wh in a measured test: about 1,600 typical Gemini text prompts. Where that goes, and what the closed tools are estimated to use.
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- Jegham, Gamazaychikov & Luccioni: "Lights, Camera, Carbon" (arXiv 2607.04553)
- Google: "Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google scale" (arXiv 2508.15734)
Veo 3, Seedance and Gen-4.5 numbers are the paper's estimates from API timing, not measurements. Checked 12 Nov 2026.