Walt Disney is investing $1 billion US in OpenAI and will let the startup use characters from Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel franchises in its Sora AI video and image generator, a crucial deal that could reshape how Hollywood makes content.

This week The Walt Disney Company announced it’s making a roughly $1 billion investment in OpenAI and signing a three-year character licensing deal that lets OpenAI’s Sora video generation tool use more than 200 beloved characters from Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars.

Disney and OpenAI have announced a groundbreaking $1 billion deal that will bring over 200 beloved characters from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars to OpenAI’s Sora video platform.

Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that can be viewed and shared by fans, drawing from a set of more than 200 animated, masked and creature characters from Disney, Marvel,

A $1 billion, three year deal between Disney and Open AI means consumers can use the Sora video maker to create videos starring Disney characters.

The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) on Thursday announced a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, allowing users to generate and share social videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters using the Sora AI video generator.

The Walt Disney Company is investing $1 billion in Open AI in a deal that will also allow characters such as Mickey Mouse and Yoda to be used on the AI company’s Sora video platform.

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