Sources: some Sora team employees were surprised by OpenAI's move to end Sora support, just a day after OpenAI posted a blog post about Sora safety standards
On Monday evening, Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) and OpenAI teams were working together on a project linked to Sora, OpenAI's AI video tool.
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This is something a company does when things are going well
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Nightmare start for new Disney CEO as Sora shutdown makes it a trifecta of losses
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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.
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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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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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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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