Ashish Verma

Founder IIM Bangalore. Have an eye for data. Love to travel & read fantasy novels.

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

#CoffeeParKurukshetra is slowly making its place among all the loud noise new channels programs. covering all aspects of a news with good thought flow and analysis. More so, panalists thoughts are so clear and far sighted. Looking forward to watching it every day @journosaurav

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

am i the only one who still types https://t.co/Z5KxCz5QRT on laptop?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

OpenAI just exited the video generation business entirely. App dead. API dead. No video inside ChatGPT. Disney’s $1 billion deal, signed four months ago, is dead.

Read that again. This isn’t a consolidation into the super app. Altman told staff Tuesday that OpenAI is winding down all products using video models. Disney’s own statement says they respect OpenAI’s decision to “exit the video generation business.” The Sora research team is being redirected to robotics.

The reason is sitting right there in the competitive data. Anthropic hit $19 billion in annualized revenue by early 2026 selling text and code. No video generation. No image generation. No consumer social app. No Disney deal. One product surface: chat, code, computer use, all in one place. OpenAI looked at where every dollar of market growth was coming from and saw the answer: coding and enterprise.

So now they’re copying the model. ChatGPT, Codex, and the browser merge into one app. Instant Checkout killed today too. Every consumer experiment is getting cut. What remains is the Anthropic playbook: one app, code and chat, enterprise and developer focus.

The Sora numbers explain the urgency. Total consumer revenue across iOS and Android since September: $1.4 million. Peak month was $540,000. Every video generation burned GPU compute that could have been running inference for ChatGPT or Codex instead. OpenAI’s own head of Sora announced generation limits because chips couldn’t keep up. At $14 billion in projected 2026 losses, every GPU matters.

Google just inherited the AI video market by default. Nano Banana already lives inside Gemini. No standalone app to manage, no separate brand to support. Among the majors, they’re the only ones left. Runway, Kling, Minimax, Luma, and the other independents are still shipping, but none of them have Google’s distribution.

Disney put $1 billion in stock warrants on a product that lasted six months. The deal was announced in December. Characters from Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars were supposed to be generating fan videos on Sora by now. Instead, Disney is writing a polite press statement about “respecting OpenAI’s decision” while its legal team unwinds a deal that never produced a single licensed video.

Four months from billion-dollar partnership to obituary. That’s how fast the AI product landscape reprices when the unit economics don’t work.

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

@livemint @grok explain this

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

That’s exactly why we built Publlish’s content approval flow. Upload content + captions in the calendar, mark it “Post only if approved.”
Client previews, gives feedback in one thread, clicks approve and that exact version auto-schedules.
If you’re an SMM and want to test this,DM

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

Have you ever posted the wrong version of a design after it was approved?
I was talking to a friend, Riya, a social media manager at an agency. I asked her what stresses her out most.
She said: " Content approval.
“It feels like a full-time project management job.”

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

This isn’t just her story.
Almost every SMM I speak to is overloaded, switching tools, chasing deadlines, hunting for the next viral moment.
Approval happens in one place. Posting happens somewhere else.
That gap is where mistakes creep in.

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

@canva is down. My work & edits

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

AI or real?

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

AI or real?

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

AI or real?

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

AI or real?

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

AI or real?

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

AI or real?

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

AI or real?

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

AI or real?

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

AI or real?

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

AI or real?

[Ashish Verma @hummingbeees]

AI or real?