{"id":210575,"date":"2025-12-12T01:50:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/disney-making-1-billion-investment-in-openai-will-allow-characters-on-sora-ai-video-generator\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T01:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:50:01","slug":"disney-making-1-billion-investment-in-openai-will-allow-characters-on-sora-ai-video-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/disney-making-1-billion-investment-in-openai-will-allow-characters-on-sora-ai-video-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney making $1 billion investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI video generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Disney on Thursday announced it will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI and will allow users to make videos with its copyrighted characters \u2014 across Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars \u2014 on Sora.<\/p>\n<p>Full details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9L6wmLMWVl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/9L6wmLMWVl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J6XFjFFMmJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/J6XFjFFMmJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNBC (@CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNBC\/status\/1999128302783545525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">December 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Disney has made a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI and will allow users to make videos with its copyrighted characters on its Sora app. Characters available include Mickey Mouse, Ariel, Cinderella, Iron Man and Darth Vader.<\/p>\n<p>Curated selections of Sora videos will also be available to watch on Disney+.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisney is the global gold standard for storytelling, and we\u2019re excited to partner to allow Sora and ChatGPT Images to expand the way people create and experience great content,\u201d OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CNBC\/status\/1999128302783545525?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/131615965.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney on Thursday announced it will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI and will allow users to make videos with its copyrighted characters \u2014 across Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars \u2014 on Sora. Full details: https:\/\/t.co\/9L6wmLMWVl pic.twitter.com\/J6XFjFFMmJ \u2014 CNBC (@CNBC) December 11, 2025 Disney has made a $1 billion equity investment in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-210575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}