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OpenAI's Content Bets, Disney and Amazon Partnerships, & Gemini 3 Flash Makes Frontier Reasoning Cheap.

Why Disney's IP solves AI's obscurity problem, OpenAI accelerates their image model, and what Amazon's $10B buys beyond compute, and Google makes frontier reasoning cheap

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Disney’s $1B OpenAI Deal Shows AI Video Needs Recognizable Content

Disney announced a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, becoming the first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI’s AI video generation platform.

The three-year deal gives Sora users access to more than 200 animated characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars. Think D…

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