What happens to work stored inside a model that ends

The one published retirement in this register also published what happens to the material inside it: data associated with Sora is deleted after a final download window. No replacement model was named with a date. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-12; no maker pays to be listed.

Inclusion rule. Statements published by the vendor retiring the model. What a reseller does with its own copy of the work is outside this register. Order. From what was published to what was not.

1A download window is the part that has a deadline attached

Deletion after a final window means the clock a production actually has to act on is not the end date of the model but the end of the window. Those are different dates and coverage reliably reports the first one.

For anything with material sitting inside a vendor's product rather than exported to storage, the second date is the one that decides whether the work survives. This register records it for that reason and would record it for every future retirement.

2No named replacement is a separate problem from no date

A retirement with a successor named lets a production plan a migration, even badly. A retirement with no named replacement means the question is not when to move but what to move to, and no amount of notice answers that.

Both were true here: dates were published and a replacement was not. That combination is worth noting because it is the one that leaves the most work to the customer.

3What this implies for anything held only inside a product

Material that exists only inside a vendor's account is subject to whatever that vendor publishes at retirement time, which in the one observed case was a window and then deletion. Material exported to storage is not.

That is a workflow conclusion rather than a finding about any product, and it is the only generalisable thing on this page. Everything else here is one vendor's announcement.

• What happens to the work
  Data associated with Sora is deleted after any final export window passesOpenAI Help Center / recorded 2026-09-12
• Named replacement model
  No replacement named (as of 2026-09-12)none in the announcementOpenAI Help Center / recorded 2026-09-12

4When the model underneath changes

Model end dates touch “Your stored work”; SceneMixer's guides describe how its pipeline treats the models it runs:

Seedance 2.0 (ByteDance's video model family) is one of the strongest engines for vertical short drama in 2026.

SceneMixer, Seedance 2.0 in a Real Short-Drama Pipeline (read 2026-10-13)

SceneMixer writes dialogue into the script analysis, assigns each line to a shot with a speaker and a short delivery note, and the video model performs it — picture and audio generated together, so the mouth forms that sentence in the language you chose.

SceneMixer, AI Dialogue Generator (read 2026-10-13)

5Sources

Dates come from the company that makes the model or the platform that serves it; menus come from the app, and both are linked on the calendar. Read 2026-09-12. What counts as a date is on sourcing. Nearby: Notice clauses, Aggregators, One or many.