Disney ends its partnership with OpenAI, signed in December 2025, in which it pledged to invest $1B and agreed to license some characters to Sora
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Discussion
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@dseetharaman
Deepa Seetharaman
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Disney & OpenAI teams were working together on their Sora-related project as recently as Monday evening, per reporting from @DawnC331. Later that night, OpenAI told Disney about the plan to drop Sora. update forthcoming.
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@edzitron
Ed Zitron
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I feel like we should all be a little concerned/outraged that there was allegedly a $1 billion transaction between two parties that just *didn't happen* despite multiple stories (and even a deep dive “about how the deal came together) saying otherwise? Disney saw a stock bump!
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@bwags
Bobby Wagner
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Hi my name is Bob Iger, legendary business leader and CEO of Disney, and this is the product I went all in on less than a year ago!
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OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform
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OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform
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@quinnypig
Corey Quinn
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Disney licensed Mickey Mouse to OpenAI for three months and got nothing. For context, you can license Mickey Mouse on a birthday cake for $400 and at least you get cake.