Disney's $1B Sora Bet
PLUS: GPT-5.2 crushes humans on real work
Disney drops a billion into OpenAI so Sora can generate videos with Mickey Mouse and Darth Vader for Disney+.
Sam Altman ships GPT-5.2 as the smartest model in the world, especially good at real knowledge work tasks.
If you're applying to YC, there are equity-free grants worth $200k sitting there from Google, Thiel Fellowship, and others.
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GPT-5.2 just hit 90.5% on ARC-AGI, a 390X efficiency improvement in cost per task over last year's o3 model.
Disney gets to use Sora as free R&D, mining fan prompts for content ideas they can own and curate onto Disney+.
GPT-5.2 beats human experts 71% of the time on tasks that take people four to eight hours to complete.
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