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Billion-dollar OpenAI deal allows users to make content with Disney characters using Sora


OpenAI.

  • As part of this three-year licensing agreement, Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that can be viewed and shared by fans, drawing on more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters.
  • Agreement will make a selection of these fan-inspired Sora short form videos available to stream on Disney+.
  • Alongside the licensing agreement, Disney will become a major customer of OpenAI, using its APIs to build new products, tools, and experiences, including for Disney+, and deploying ChatGPT for its employees.
  • As part of the agreement, Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, and receive warrants to purchase additional equity.
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Billion-dollar OpenAI deal allows users to make content with Disney characters using Sora


OpenAI.

  • As part of this three-year licensing agreement, Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that can be viewed and shared by fans, drawing on more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters.
  • Agreement will make a selection of these fan-inspired Sora short form videos available to stream on Disney+.
  • Alongside the licensing agreement, Disney will become a major customer of OpenAI, using its APIs to build new products, tools, and experiences, including for Disney+, and deploying ChatGPT for its employees.
  • As part of the agreement, Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, and receive warrants to purchase additional equity.
This entry was edited (1 week ago)



AES, Togo and Chad Launch Strategic Energy Projects in Niamey



in reply to misk

While I do know Microsoft HAS accepted studios (or groups of workers) unionizing in the past... I wonder how they'll react to this one, considering that when the voice actor strike was going on they replaced one of the voice actors in Call of Duty Black Ops 6 Zombies, who just happened to have been Samantha Maxis' original actor for nearly 15 years before that :|
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in reply to misk

Good for them. The only way to secure your personal rights against corporations




Senator calls on Ottawa to reinforce Canada’s claim to island off New Brunswick | Globalnews.ca



in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Didn’t they say they were backing out of it right after the election?




in reply to Quilotoa

Groundbreaking for the project is scheduled for 2029.

It remains unclear when passengers will actually be able to board the first high-speed train. Sources suggest each segment could take seven to eight years to build.


Just another liberal scam that will be canceled by first-past-the-post. Won’t be the last time Mark Carney lies.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

In Canada I am hearing about TGV in the "windsor-quebec corridor" for more than 30 years. While in Europe they have TGV for 44 years...
in reply to Papamousse

They have the population and don't have the car pressure. (ie, it's difficult to travel outside of the major cities if you don't have a car)


Terminator 2D: NO FATE released on steam with native build.


The artwork looks great, but I can see why Escapist called it "Sarah Contra 3"


Poilievre in Political 'Death Spiral' After Another Floor Crossing: Political Scientist


in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

I hope the other people he mentioned who are also fed up with being a pure obstructionist government break off and form an actually progressive Conservative Party, and PP can fuck off and run the PPC with Bernier.
in reply to panda_abyss

Carney's managed to get PP whine about him discussing Alberta's oil pipe dreams of all things... Canadians are catching on that Pierre will not be happy even if Conservatives get stuff they have presently or previously campaigned for.
in reply to panda_abyss

If enough conservatives cross the floor, maybe Canadians will recognize the Liberal party as the progressive conservative party it is and let the NDP own the left.
in reply to Jason2357

Exactly. It's time to put to an end the myth that the LPC is a "progressive" party.
in reply to Jason2357

Traditionally, Canadians have been socially liberal and fiscally conservative and fairly “centrist” overall. That has mostly described the Liberals with the Conservatives mostly coming in to power after periods where the Liberals have been less fiscally conservative.

The NDP struggles to create a national mandate as they are perceived as too fiscally left (what gets the Liberals in trouble). The Conservatives are sometimes seen as too socially right, opening the door for the Liberals.

in reply to panda_abyss

PP can fuck off and run the PPC with Bernier.


Neither will settle for being second banana to the other. They would fight for control and further weaken the already irrelevant PPC.

Which is absolutely fine with me. The party of misfit politicians needs to remain irrelevant.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

I'm happy that Polievre may get the comeuppance he so richly deserves, and the CPC may sink further into irrelevance. But there's a bigger point here: the LPC is now openly the real conservative party--it has been for a very long time, but they succeeded to some degree in making people believe they were "progressive"--and further, thanks to these desertions they are now very close to having a majority of seats. (I hope the people who voted for the floor crossers have learned their lesson). If the Liberals do get a majority, they should do the decent thing and call an election, because nobody voted for this.
in reply to leastaction

Except the population is still shifting right. Slowly but surely, their numbers are growing.
in reply to leastaction

If you do not mind me asking…

If you want the CPC to “sink further into irrelevance”, what do you expect from another election?

CPC in charge - it sounds like you do not want that

Liberals in charge -“nobody voted for this”? Sound like you do not want that either.

So, am I to understand that you think an election would put the NDP in charge? That seems very unlikely.

What outcome are we hoping a new election will deliver?

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in reply to leastaction

Liberals do get a majority, they should do the decent thing and call an election, because nobody voted for this.


It’s in the interests of the elites to have phoney majority governments. This is why they staunchly oppose proportional representation.


in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Let's call Maple MAGA what it is: treason. PP wants to sell Canada to the US. Folks don't like traitors.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

If you ever think voting is pointless....remember how dangerously close we were to having Poilievre as prime minister


CDA-leider Bontenbal noemt coalitie met JA21 meest realistisch


Een coalitie met D66, CDA, VVD en JA21 is momenteel het meest realistische scenario voor Henri Bontenbal. Dat zei de CDA-leider na besprekingen met D66, VVD en de nieuwe informateur Rianne Letschert. Hij benadrukte dat de gesprekken nog lopen, maar dat hij verwacht dat er eerst naar JA21 wordt gekeken en dus niet naar GroenLinks-PvdA.