Sora Outpaces ChatGPT in Record-Breaking App Store Debut

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• Sora Outpaces ChatGPT in Record-Breaking App Store Debut

• Prezent Raises $30M and Acquires Prezentium to Expand Enterprise AI Tools

• Datacurve Raises $15M to Rethink How AI Gets Its Data

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Sora Outpaces ChatGPT in Record-Breaking App Store Debut

🚀 TodayOnAI Insight: OpenAI’s video-generation app Sora just outpaced ChatGPT’s iOS debut, with over 627,000 downloads in its first week—despite being invite-only and iOS-exclusive. According to Appfigures, Sora hit 1 million installs in under five days, signaling record-breaking demand for AI video tools.

🔍 Key Takeaways:

• Bigger debut than ChatGPT: Sora logged 627,000 iOS downloads in its first 7 days, surpassing ChatGPT’s 606,000—even before crossing the 1M mark in under five days.

• Invite-only launch: Unlike ChatGPT’s open U.S. rollout, Sora requires an invite and is only available in the U.S. and Canada (with Canada contributing ~45K installs).

• App Store dominance: Sora jumped to No. 3 on day one and reached No. 1 by October 3, outperforming launches of Claude, Copilot, and even rival Grok.

• High engagement: Daily downloads peaked at 107,800 on October 1, with consistent installs above 84K through the week.

• Controversial use cases: Sora’s realism—powered by the new Sora 2 model—is enabling viral deepfake content, raising ethical questions around impersonations of deceased individuals.

💡 Why This Stands Out: Sora’s rapid ascent—despite invite gates and platform limits—shows how strong the appetite is for next-gen AI video creation. Its breakout moment mirrors ChatGPT’s initial momentum but signals a broader consumer shift toward multimodal AI tools. As realism improves, the ethical stakes get higher: will generative video face the same regulatory reckoning as AI text and images?

Prezent

Prezent Raises $30M and Acquires Prezentium to Expand Enterprise AI Tools

🚀 TodayOnAI Insight: Enterprise-focused presentation startup Prezent has raised $30M in fresh funding and made its first acquisition, bringing services-led Prezentium under its wing. The deal consolidates founder Rajat Mishra’s two ventures and signals Prezent’s push to expand its AI-powered platform within the life sciences and tech industries.

🔍 Key Takeaways:

• Funding & Valuation: Prezent raised $30M led by Multiplier Capital, Greycroft, and Nomura, bringing its total to $74M and valuation to $400M.

• First Acquisition: Acquired Prezentium, a presentation services firm focused on life sciences, co-founded by Prezent’s own CEO, Rajat Mishra.

• Enterprise Strategy: While many rivals chase SMBs, Prezent targets large enterprises, currently focusing on life sciences and tech verticals.

• Specialized AI Approach: Trains industry-specific models and embeds “presentation engineers” inside companies to ease adoption.

• Product Roadmap: Plans to add personalization, multimodal input (text, voice, video), and digital avatars to enhance communication tools.

💡 Why This Stands Out: Prezent’s move to acquire a services company highlights a broader trend: AI startups are buying domain expertise to speed enterprise adoption. By merging AI tooling with human-led onboarding, Prezent is betting that hybrid models—not just pure automation—will win in corporate settings. Can strategic acquisitions and deep vertical focus give it an edge in a crowded presentation AI space?

Datacurve

Datacurve Raises $15M to Rethink How AI Gets Its Data

🚀 TodayOnAI Insight: Datacurve, a Y Combinator alum, has raised a $15M Series A to scale its bounty-driven platform for collecting high-quality training data—starting with software engineering. As competition intensifies for premium datasets, backers see a strategic opportunity in Datacurve’s user-focused approach.

🔍 Key Takeaways:

• Series A funding: Raised $15M led by Chemistry’s Mark Goldberg, with participation from DeepMind, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Vercel employees.

• Unique model: Uses a “bounty hunter” system to pay skilled contributors for generating rare, high-quality datasets.

• Traction: Over $1M in bounties distributed; aims to build a positive, engaging UX to attract expert contributors.

• Strategic vision: Initially focused on software engineering, but plans to expand to other high-skill fields like finance and medicine.

• Industry shift: Reflects a growing demand for complex, post-training data to support advanced RL-based models.

💡 Why This Stands Out: As foundation models mature, the quality of post-training data is becoming a defining advantage—especially in nuanced domains like software development. Datacurve’s consumer-grade platform reframes data work not as labor, but as contribution-driven participation. In a space long dominated by industrial labeling, is UX the next battleground?

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