**[OpenAI Launches Social Media App to Challenge TikTok, YouTube, and Others]** BlockBeats reports that on October 1, according to the WSJ, OpenAI is launching a brand-new social media app to challenge TikTok, Google’s YouTube, and Meta. Leveraging its AI video generator, users of the new app can create high-definition short videos with audio simply by providing text prompts. Users can also upload their own clips and embed them into virtual worlds generated by Sora, describing the desired creativity, style, and scenes. They can further interact with other users, watch, and comment on others' content. The new version, Sora 2, will adopt a swipe-based navigation style similar to TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, showcasing OpenAI’s ambitions in the Silicon Valley AI video space. OpenAI plans to initially launch the app on an invite-only basis via the Apple App Store in the U.S. and Canada.