On Monday evening, The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI teams were working together on a project linked to Sora, OpenAI’s AI video tool. Just 30 minutes after that meeting, the Disney team was blindsided with word that OpenAI was dropping the tool altogether, a person familiar with the matter said.OpenAI announced the move publicly on Tuesday.“It was a big rug-pull,” according to the person, who requested anonymity to discuss the matter.Shift in strategy hits Sora projectThe move is the first big step by the ...

OpenAI and Disney just called off their partnership, giving new Mouse House CEO Josh D'Amaro a big test less than a week into his reign. The Disney deal gave Sora, OpenAI's AI video platform — which the company plans to shut down — permission to use iconic characters like Mickey Mouse and Cinderella. The Mouse House took a billion-dollar stake in OpenAI and got say over how its IP was used.Notably, Disney also planned to feature a curated collection of AI-generated short-form videos from Sora on Disney+. Th ...

OpenAI confirmed on Tuesday that it is discontinuing its once-viral AI video app, Sora. OpenAI's $1 billion deal with Disney, which included licensing of over 200 Disney characters to appear on Sora, is also ending."We've decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer app and API," an OpenAI spokesperson told CNET. "As we focus and compute demand grows, the Sora research team continues to focus on world simulation research to advance robotics that will help people solve real-world, physical tasks."There's no t ...

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Disney‘s much heralded $1 billion investment in Open AI is over as the Sam Altman-led tech giant will be shuttering its standalone Sora text-to-video app “The deal is not moving forward,” an insider tells Deadline of the agreement then House of Mouse CEO Bob Iger reached last year with Altman. It is unclear how much of the $1 billion Disney had handed over to the IPO inclined Open AI and when and how they would be getting the money back — if at all. Right now, as the increasingly consumer facing Open AI l ...

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Walt Disney Co (DIS 1.57%) has seemingly been in flux for the last decade.Over that period, the entertainment giant acquired Fox's entertainment assets, launched Disney+, managed through the pandemic, replaced its CEO, brought back Bob Iger, and now Iger has officially retired, replaced by new CEO Josh D'Amaro.During that time, Disney has retained its primacy in family entertainment and built an impressive streaming business, but the stock has gone nowhere, as it is basically flat over the last decade, whil ...

management the manager CEO also the managing partner to Thomas Helick and you know uh it's it's it's pretty imp amazing to me right because you'd already said listen this has been somewhat orderly although beneath the surface there have been pockets in this market that gotten hit uh and so what do you make of today's reaction I think the instant reaction just kind of so I've been saying it's a coiled spring for a while >> well I I agree with you on the coiled spring we've been optimistic on the market for a ...

In response to investor interest, we have updated our previous circularity mapping for OpenAI ( Exhibit 1 ). We use this ecosystem for illustrative purposes, but similar ecosystems exist across other major AI ecosystem players, public and private. March 22, 2026 09:00 PM GMT Global Valuation, Accounting & Tax | North America AI: Mapping the AI Ecosystem As the compute investment cycle accelerates, and capital remains constrained, new financing solutions are emerging. We update and expand our illustration of ...