By skyforbes 
Sora just hit 1M downloads and did it faster than ChatGPT ever did. The artificial intelligence landscape has witnessed countless breakthrough moments over the past few years, but few have captured public imagination quite like OpenAI’s latest creation. Sora, the company’s groundbreaking video-generating application, has just achieved something remarkable: it’s outperformed ChatGPT’s already legendary iOS debut, setting a new benchmark for AI app launches in the process.
According to fresh data from Appfigures, a leading app intelligence provider, Sora accumulated an impressive 627,000 iOS downloads during its first week of availability. To put that in perspective, ChatGPT, which took the world by storm and became a cultural phenomenon, managed 606,000 iOS downloads in its inaugural week. While the difference might seem modest at first glance, the context makes Sora’s achievement all the more extraordinary.
Shortly after these initial figures emerged, OpenAI’s head of Sora, Bill Peebles, shared even more stunning news: the app had crossed the million-download threshold in under five days. He emphasized that this milestone came faster than…