{"id":342957,"date":"2025-12-12T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342957\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:45:15","slug":"disney-invests-1-5b-in-openai-licences-mickey-mouse-and-200-characters-for-sora-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342957\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney invests $1.5b in OpenAI, licences Mickey Mouse and 200 characters for Sora videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walt Disney agreed to invest $US1 billion ($1.5 billion) in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5nkn0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI <\/a>and license iconic characters like Mickey Mouse and Cinderella for use on the startup\u2019s short-form, artificial intelligence video platform.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the new three-year pact, OpenAI\u2019s Sora will be able to draw from a library of more than 200 animated and creature characters \u2014 from Lilo and Stitch to Ariel and Simba \u2014 when generating AI videos in response to user prompts. The deal, announced Thursday, doesn\u2019t cover any talent likenesses or voices, however. So a video could feature Woody from Toy Story but without Tom Hanks\u2019 voice.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walt Disney agreed to invest $US1 billion ($1.5 billion) in OpenAI and license iconic characters like Mickey Mouse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-342957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}