Sora’s Android launch is off to an auspicious begin. On its first day on the Google Play Retailer, the AI video app from ChatGPT maker OpenAI noticed an estimated 470,000 downloads throughout the markets the place it was accessible, in line with new estimates from app intelligence supplier Appfigures.
That makes the Android launch greater than four-times the dimensions of the iOS launch, with 327% extra installs (360,000) — however agency notes that’s not an apples-to-apples comparability.
On iOS, Sora was solely accessible within the U.S. and Canada, and it was invite-only.
Sora on Android, nevertheless, is accessible within the U.S., Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, and OpenAI dropped the invite requirement in late October for its prime markets.
The app was a breakout hit following its debut, regardless of its earlier unique standing. The iOS app hit over one million installs inside its first week and rapidly jumped to the highest of the App Retailer. At the moment, it’s nonetheless rating because the No. 4 app on the U.S. App Retailer’s iPhone Prime Free Charts.
With Sora, customers leverage AI to make movies utilizing prompts. These movies can even embrace the customers and their pals animated by AI, through a function often known as Cameos. Movies are scrollable in a TikTok-like vertical feed, so you may see what different individuals are making with the know-how.
Appfigures has additionally revised its earlier estimates for first-day iOS downloads of the Sora app. Initially, its fashions stated the app noticed round 56,000 day-one downloads. Now that extra time has handed, the mannequin can extra precisely predict that the determine was nearer to 110,000, with about 69,300 of these being U.S. installs.
By comparability, the Sora Android app noticed roughly 296,000 U.S.-based installs, out of the 470,000 complete, indicating there’s nonetheless curiosity within the AI video maker, even after the preliminary iOS launch buzz wore off.
Sora additionally competes with Meta AI, which launched its cell app to European customers in the present day, following its earlier U.S. debut.
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