The fanfare for OpenAI's new AI social media app continues this week: Sora is winning the popularity contest in Apple's app store. As of Friday, Oct. 3, Sora outranks its sister app ChatGPT (No. 3) and Google Gemini (No. 2) on the chart of top free apps.

Sora is a brand new app named after OpenAI's video generator. It has a similar setup to TikTok, with different feeds of looped videos on an endless stream. But Sora is different from any other social media platforms in one big way: Nothing on Sora is real. Every video is made using the company's latest AI video model, Sora 2.

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The app is only available for US and Canadian iOS users, with Android users stuck using Sora throu

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