OpenAI currently has two apps in the App Store’s top 3, but it’s still behind Gemini, thanks to the sustained success of Google’s Nano Banana image model. On September 30, OpenAI released Sora, a social app powered by a much-anticipated revamped version of its original generative video model. Despite being invite-only, the app has been gathering considerable momentum, with 56,000 installs in the US on its first day and 108,000 installs during its second day, according to AppFigures. The first-day download numbers, as observed by TechCrunch, put Sora’s debut “on par with xAI’s Grok launch,” but behind ChatGPT and Gemini, which saw 81,000 and 80,000 downloads on debut day, respectively. Despite frequent outcries and hot takes that “regular people don’t care about AI,” the sustained success of Gemini at the top of the App Store, with OpenAI trailing closely behind with not one, but two apps, suggests otherwise.