OpenAI and Disney announced on Thursday that they have entered into a three-year licensing agreement that will enable the use of Disney’s characters on Sora, a platform for videos created with generative artificial intelligence (AI), a strong signal for the AI content ecosystem.

Under the partnership, Disney will take a $1 billion equity stake in OpenAI and receive warrants enabling it to acquire additional shares in the company behind ChatGPT at a later date.

Launched at the end of September, Sora positions itself as a social network where only AI-generated videos can be published. The platform runs on OpenAI’s generative video model, Sora 2, successor to the original Sora model, whose generic name has been adopted for the app.

From the outset, Sora featured unauthorised content usin

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