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May the Force be with Sora, because the app is getting all the crown jewels of Star Wars, Marvel, and Disney. In a new deal, the Mouse has agreed to invest $1 billion in OpenAI in exchange for a three-year license to its intellectual property that would allow Sora users to make videos with Disney-owned characters, as well as proprietary models for stuff like the X-Wing and the Death Star.

Under the terms of the deal, more than 200 characters will be unleashed onto Sora from the Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney vaults, and a feed of Sora-generated videos will be added to Disney+. Additionally, the companies said, Disney will become a “major customer of OpenAI,” meaning all Disney employees will get access to ChatGPT, and that it will use th

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