After Openi’s video app sura Entered the No. 1 position In the US App Store, it is now, technically, experienced a larger first week than Chatgpt on iOS, according to the new data provided by the Intelligence equipment. The estimates show that Sora saw 627,000 iOS downloads in the first seven days available, compared to 606,000 iOS in chatgtt in the first week.
This is not the most beautiful comparison, because chatgt is only available in the US in the first week, while Sora is currently offered in the US and Canada to launch. However, appfigeres say that Canada contributes about 45k install, so the launch of Sora is 96% to launch chatgtt, if data is only based on US numbers.
This consumer adoption level is worth because Sora remains an invitation – the app, while the chatgpt is more likely to be used in public launch. That makes Sora’s performance more impressive.
On the first day, Sora sees 56,000 installs in the app In short order, break the app to be No. 3 top of the General App in the US App Store. By Friday, October 3, it reached No. 1. That surge had already put Sora’s debut ahead of other major ai app launches, including anthropic’s Claude and Microsoft’s copilot, and put it on par with Xai’s grok launch.
A quick social media scan provides many anecdotes that support the data in appfigeres. Videos in Sora, using the new video 2 video model and provided the ability to generate realistic deferfakes, as if everywhere. The users Even making the depths of dead peopleA case used to prompt Zalda Williams, daughter of late actor Robin Williams, to ask people to stop sending his images to AI.

Per percfigures, the app detects steady adoption since the first day of the market, September 30, 20200 downloads of low 84,400.
While less than week of the week, it is decent numbers for an app that is not all available.
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