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The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

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247 points inesranzo | 5 comments | 11 Dec 25 14:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.895s | source
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afavour ◴[11 Dec 25 14:47 UTC] No.46232022[source]▶
AI has driven the corporate suites of these companies insane.

> As part of the agreement, Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, and receive warrants to purchase additional equity.

I don't know what kind of hypnosis tricks Sam Altman pulls on these people but the fact that Disney is giving money to OpenAI as part of a deal to give over the rights to its characters is absolutely baffling.

OpenAI and ChatGPT have been pioneering but they're absolutely going to be commoditized. IMO there is at least a 50:50 chance OpenAI equity is going to be next to worthless in the future. That Disney would give over so much value and so much cash for it... insane.

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embedding-shape ◴[11 Dec 25 14:58 UTC] No.46232163[source]▶
> but they're absolutely going to be commoditized

I've been thinking the same since GPT3 too, and since ChatGPT, and since Claude and... But here I am, still paying for ChatGPT Pro because it's literally has the best model you can get access to for a fixed price each month, and none of the others so far come close. I still use Anthropic's and Google's models to compare/validate against, because I assumed at one point they'd surpass OpenAI, but so far they haven't. This all makes me believe less and less each day that it'll actually be commoditized.

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1. camdenreslink ◴[11 Dec 25 15:03 UTC] No.46232247[source]▶
If 3 or 4 competitors can all provide a mostly identical product, isn't that a commodity? That is essentially the case right now, with the different companies playing around with UI, integrations and business model.
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2. embedding-shape ◴[11 Dec 25 15:04 UTC] No.46232266[source]▶
If all models were equal then sure. But for professionals who use these to solve complex problems and need correctness above all? The models and weights are not equal and interchangeable.
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3. mcphage ◴[11 Dec 25 15:27 UTC] No.46232555[source]▶
> But for professionals who use these to solve complex problems and need correctness above all?

Is that the same thing as making bootleg graphics involving Disney characters?

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4. embedding-shape ◴[11 Dec 25 15:59 UTC] No.46233014{3}[source]▶
No? What kind of unrelated "gotcha" is this?
5. camdenreslink ◴[12 Dec 25 02:12 UTC] No.46240119[source]▶
I use them every day for coding and Gemini 3 pro, Opus 4.5, and GPT 5.1 (haven’t tried 5.2 yet) are basically identical in terms of ability. Opus 4.5 has a slight edge in my personal experience so far.