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The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

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249 points inesranzo | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 14:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.312s | 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[source]▶
Yeah, he’s a sociopath
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1. sidewndr46 ◴[12 Dec 25 13:36 UTC] No.46243992[source]▶
I can't really see how Altman is a sociopath? I think his current vision greatly exceeds the technical capabilities that OpenAI can ever build. OpenAI seems to have produced some genuinely interesting products on the other hand. But they aren't profitable at present and I don't see it happening.

Altman talks to the talk of a CEO who is going to build a company that can change the world. It's what investors want to hear. He seems to make as many attempts as possible to actually execute on that. I think most of those plans are unlikely to be as successful as desired. But this isn't Theranos level fraud, where what they are trying to build is obviously impossible.