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The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

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236 points inesranzo | 2 comments | 11 Dec 25 14:05 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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postalcoder ◴[11 Dec 25 14:45 UTC] No.46232000[source]▶
buried the lede:

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

I say this with no snark or disdain: Sam has mastered the art of the flywheel.

Re licensed ai videos, if anyone wants to see the perspective the C-suites are being sold on, check out this episode of Belloni's The Town, in which they discuss the vision for AI + IP https://overcast.fm/+AA4DU9JreIE

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ramesh31 ◴[11 Dec 25 14:54 UTC] No.46232103[source]▶
>I say this with no snark or disdain: Sam has mastered the art of the flywheel.

It's been his entire career. Guy has made billions of dollars from talking.

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irishcoffee ◴[11 Dec 25 23:55 UTC] No.46239071{3}[source]▶
Yeah, he’s a sociopath
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nish__ ◴[12 Dec 25 02:43 UTC] No.46240306{4}[source]▶
He's taking from Disney and Microsoft though so I see no moral issues.
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1. irishcoffee ◴[12 Dec 25 05:27 UTC] No.46241145{5}[source]▶
What if he’s wrong? He doesn’t care.

It could however, be pretty fucking shitty for the US/World economy.

He don’t care.

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2. nish__ ◴[12 Dec 25 05:32 UTC] No.46241179[source]▶
What if who's wrong? Sam? If right means turning a profit, he's most certainly wrong. It would be a very stupid investment to give money to him but it turns out there no shortage of dumb money. Can't blame the guy for taking money people are literally throwing at him. If you know anything about the guy he has no interest in business or profit. He just wants to create AGI. Mostly out of curiosity it seems.