OpenAI’s Sora app already reaches second place in the United States App Store

The new OpenAI application, sorafocused on creating videos using artificial intelligence, has become a viral hit despite being available by invitation only and limited to users in the United States and Canada. During his first day, Sora recorded 56,000 downloadsand currently occupies second place in the ranking of most downloaded applications in the American App Store, only surpassed by Gemini. This new app works with Sora 2, the first update of the model since it appeared in 2024.

According to data collected by TechCrunch, the application accumulated a total of 164,000 installations during its first two days, between September 30 and October 1. These numbers put Sora ahead of other recent AI app releases, such as Anthropic’s Claude and Microsoft’s Copilot, and on par with the debut of xAI’s Grok.

Comparison with other AI applications

To provide a fairer analysis, only downloads in the United States and Canada were compared, as each application has followed different launch strategies. For example, Google’s ChatGPT and Gemini achieved higher initial downloads, with 81,000 and 80,000 first-day installs, respectively. In comparison, Sora ranked alongside Grok with 56,000 downloads, while Claude and Copilot garnered 21,000 and 7,000 installs each on their first day.

As for the App Store rankings, Sora quickly climbed to the third place overall on its second day. At the moment, is already in second place. To put it in perspective, ChatGPT came in at number one, Grok at number four, Gemini at number six, Copilot at number nineteen, and Claude at number 78.

Although Sora is currently invite-only, there seems to be quite a bit of growing interest in AI-enabled video tools, especially those that allow for a more social media-like experience. The one known as the attention economy It’s a juicy business that could be boosted by massive AI-powered content generation. That’s why other large corporations don’t want to miss the party. In fact, Google Veo 3 is already capable of creating videos for YouTube Short or TikTok.