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Sora’s downloads in its first week was nearly as big as ChatGPT’s launch

✍️ Sarah Perez, Consumer News Editor, Rebecca Bellan, Maxwell Zeff, Ivan Mehta, Anthony Ha, Connie Loizos, Dominic-Madori Davis, --C-Author-Card-Image-Size Align-Items Center Display Flex Gap Var, Media 📅 October 08, 2025 12:00 AM 🕐 Scraped: October 09, 2025

Summary: This level of consumer adoption is worth noting because Sora remains an invite-only app, while ChatGPT was more publicly available at launch. That makes Sora's performance more impressive.

After OpenAI’s video-generating app Sora surged to the No. 1 position on the U.S. App Store, it has now, technically, experienced a bigger first week than ChatGPT on iOS, according to new data from app intelligence provider Appfigures.

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