[Foreign Media: OpenAI Burns Up to $15 Million Daily on Sora Video Generation, Annual Losses May Exceed $5 Billion] According to Forbes, OpenAI's video generation app Sora, despite surpassing 4 million downloads, has extremely high operating costs, potentially spending approximately $15 million daily on AI video generation, with annual expenditures exceeding $5 billion. Analysts estimate that generating a 10-second video costs an average of $1.3, far exceeding the current free usage level for users. The report points out that OpenAI is still in an aggressive expansion phase, prioritizing user base growth and video training data acquisition over profitability. Company executives admit that Sora's economic model is "completely unsustainable at present" and may reduce free usage in the future while exploring monetization paths such as paid services or advertising.