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The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

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236 points inesranzo | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 14:05 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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eykanal ◴[11 Dec 25 15:03 UTC] No.46232245[source]▶
I read this as "Disney approached OpenAI and threatened to sue them into oblivion --> OpenAI negotiated that Disney will use OpenAI internally for free, and will buy $1B of equity to have an ownership stake in the company".

Disney comes out pretty good from this one; they're going to have a ton of people using the service to create all sorts of stuff that will—on the whole—increase brand awareness and engagement with Disney.

OpenAI comes out pretty good from this, with a customer who's probably not paying much (if anything), $1B additional runway, but reduced ownership of the company.

I think Disney is the winner here.

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venusenvy47 ◴[12 Dec 25 00:36 UTC] No.46239435[source]▶
I don't really understand why Disney is paying $1B for this. Shouldn't OpenAI be paying Disney to avoid getting sued?
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1. twostorytower ◴[12 Dec 25 00:56 UTC] No.46239612{3}[source]▶
Disney will either get a multiple on their return on investment, or OpenAI will die anyways and their IP issue with it.