Disney and OpenAI Strike an Unexpected Deal - DTNS 5163
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Starring Jason Howell, Jenn Cutter,Tom Merritt and Andy Beach.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, December 11th, 2025. |
| 0:04.4 | We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context, and help each other understand. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, Andy Beach tells us about Fetch AI's agent directory, and Disney makes a surprise agreement with Open AI. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, who saw this one coming? I'm Jason Howell. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm Jen Cutter. |
| 0:20.6 | Let's start with what you need to know with a big story. |
| 0:24.4 | All right, so Open AI and Disney just signed a three-year deal that lets SORA and ChatGPT image generation generate short, fan-prompted videos and images using more than 200 of Disney's |
| 0:40.6 | characters, costumes, vehicles, environments from all of its properties. When we're talking |
| 0:46.4 | about Disney, we're not just talking about Walt Disney movies and Disney TV and that sort of stuff. |
| 0:51.8 | It is the Disney IP. It's also Pixar. It's Marvel. It's Star Wars. |
| 0:57.9 | There's probably more in there. Apparently, all this kicks off in 2026. And this is really interesting to me. |
| 1:06.0 | I want to see how this actually, you know, rolls out. But Disney Plus is going to offer a curated set of |
| 1:12.7 | SORA clips from this partnership for its streaming subscribers. So when people go on to SORA and SORA |
| 1:18.7 | for those who might not know is Open AI's video generation model, does video, does audio |
| 1:24.0 | generation tied to the video, it's actually pretty powerful. And so, you know, people |
| 1:29.8 | creating stuff on Disney IP, Disney's going to like organize that and collect it and put it |
| 1:36.4 | together in some sort of form for Disney Plus subscribers. So I don't know what that's going to look like. |
| 1:41.6 | Anyways, the companies are framing the partnership as a test bed for, quote, responsible entertainment AI. No talent likenesses or voices included in the deal. There are also explicit promises around age appropriate use, also safety controls for users that includes a commitment to guardrails blocking illegal or harmful |
| 2:03.0 | content we're talking disney here and generative ai disney is is notorious for controlling its IP |
| 2:10.4 | also it's very child friendly and then you've got generative AI that is notorious for not following the rules and doing things |
| 2:20.2 | surprisingly and unexpectedly. What are your thoughts on this deal? This is a big one. |
| 2:26.5 | One, I did not think any kind of deal was happening anytime soon. That's why it was to surprise. |
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