OpenAI's Sora video API is dead as of Sept 24 — no replacement
It opens a deadline-heavy week for builders: four legacy OpenAI models retire Sept 28, DevDay lands Sept 29, and a critical Next.js patch ships Sept 30.
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The Sora API is switched off
OpenAI discontinued the Sora video-generation API on Sept 24 — the web and app went in April, the API now follows, with no drop-in OpenAI successor. Any service that called it for text- or image-to-video broke overnight; unused credits can be redirected to Codex.
Four legacy models retire Sept 28
gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, babbage-002, davinci-002 and gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 shut down Sept 28, with OpenAI pointing migrators to gpt-5.6-terra. If any job still pins those strings for completions, fine-tunes or cheap classifiers, swap them this weekend or the calls start 404-ing.
Next.js ships a critical patch Sept 30
Next.js pre-announced a Sept 30 security release fixing nine issues — one critical, two high, five medium, one low — landing as 16.3.7 and 15.5.27 with full advisories. The advance notice is your window to schedule the bump before the exploit details go public.
OpenAI DevDay is Sept 29
OpenAI's developer day runs Sept 29 in San Francisco — one day after the model sunset — with no agenda posted yet. Treat the run-up as cleanup time: audit who can mint API keys and kill any calls hard-wired to the models going dark.
Your video escape hatch: LTX-2.5
With the Sora API gone, the readiest self-hosted replacement is Lightricks' open-weights LTX-2.5 — a 22B text- and image-to-video model you run on your own GPU. Weekend project: stand up a local endpoint and repoint your dead Sora calls at it.