Descript was founded in 2017 by Andrew Mason (yes, the same guy who started Groupon). The company’s mission is to simplify audio and video editing so that anyone — not just professionals with expensive software — can create high-quality content.
Sora is developed by **OpenAI**, the San Francisco–based artificial intelligence research company behind ChatGPT, DALL·E, and GPT. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. As it expands into multimodal generation, video is the next frontier for its creative tools.