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Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1913698/disney-exits-openai-deal-after-ai-giant-shutters-sora
Original WSJ exclusive: OpenAI Scraps Sora App in Continued Push to Focus on Coding and ‘Agent’ Tools
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At this rate I’ll be surprised if OpenAI is around in 5 years. They’re not only bleeding regular users but now corporate contracts. I hope all the AI blows up and the bubble pops. No better time than when everything else is going to shit anyway.
I, too, I’m ready for this s* to be over.
P03 LockeDefine “this shit”. Because, I think too many people are thinking we’re just going to arrive in this magic before-time when LLMs were never invented.
DraconicSun
I’d be surprised if they survive to the end of the year. Hell, if tomorrow is a literal massacre for it in the stock market, I don’t think it will continue to exist after April.
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So, perhaps the AI bubble won’t pop.
Maybe it’ll just slowly deflate like a rancid fart.
Silent but deadly
I have a theory, that these techbros have became so savvy of bubbles, that they had plans to keep it going forever, or at least make it slowly die instead of crash at once.
Shart.
Womp; also, womp.
Wait, let me get the world’s smallest violin and we’ll start over.
If I remember right, wasn’t shutting down Sora one of Ed’s signs of the apocalypse?
Pretty close! Sora gets mentioned specifically, just not in that context
Great read! I wonder what his perspective is now. That article was written in August 2024 and a lot has happened since then. For example, I cannot fathom the agreement to Sundar’s latest pay package. Another example of failing up the corporate ladder.
Also, it feels like competition with China was an overlooked wildcard in his argument. It would not surprise me if the bubble continues to grow just to try and beat China.
He’s been on Newsweek podcast recently and given his assessment with new events and focus on datacenters and hardware.
https://youtu.be/RKwK7qrBz8g
The issue is that you can’t really “beat” China. Their models are free to self host and use, they don’t play by the rules of US LLM companies.
Sure it’s going to be the same for personal use, to most people chatGPT or DeepSeek are websites.
But to enterprise it will be a massive difference in cost, and AI can’t even begin to dream about profitability without enterprise
Jury’s out on that, they may be using the large US company play of undercut your competitors until they crash and burn then seize the monopoly (e.g. Amazon and bookstores….) then ratchet prices up and enshittify, but with the bankroll of a huge country.
Great read, thank you
I can’t wait to see the stock market tomorrow morning. It’s gonna be carnage. Let the bodies hit the floor.
Don’t hold your breath.
But also, don’t be surprised.
The markets have completed their transition into a casino, no predictions are possible anymore.
It needs to function like a casino so that Trump can bankrupt it.
Nah you just need to get intel on who cheeto president is bombing next so you can bet on oil before it happens.
Market still shows pretty up in pre-trading
The markets ceased being rational like so long ago
On the other hand you can always rely on them being a bunch of drama queens that always overreacts to news.
Disney or sora really wasn’t that big of a deal in AI (due to alternatives). OpenAI is probably right to shift focus to coding. Disney is probably still going to go after AI, just different company.
Its horrible, a wave of green, the color of witches.
shouldn’t it be red if a service is getting shut down? thats negative i assume
Assumptions implies logic, thats where you went wrong. This is a QE fueled casino, the game of musical chairs only ends when a large bank goes insolvent.
😂
Sora died? Awesome. What an absolute waste of resources that garbage was.
Honestly I wasn’t a fan after the first Kingdom Hearts.
That’s a shame, because KH2 is pretty widely regarded as the best in the series. If you stopped with Chain of Memories, I wouldn’t blame you. The gameplay for that one is definitely… Uhh… Divisive. But KH2 was when the series really hit its stride.
I thought the card-based combat and deck building in Chain of Memories was fun, and the PS2 remake was really well done imo. KH2 is good, but story-wise, I don’t think anything can top 358 days/2, though Birth By Sleep comes close, and I like the combat in BBS more than KH2.
Skip re:Coded though, or just find a compilation of the cutscenes/story on YouTube. That one is ass
Ignoring the peak of all action games that is KH2? Sacrilege!
Layers and layers
Roxas had entered the chat.
Is he still trying to save Kairi too?
I got bored REALLY fast of their shit.
good. Hopefully suno dies next. GenAI is garbage tech.
Ive been asking this for 4 years now, no one has given a good answer. What is this tech actually for??? Whats the use case??
amusing yourself with silly songs and also not tormenting others with them
It’s for enabling wannabes. I’m a professional musician and I can tell you the only person who uses it is someone on the Suno payroll (Timbaland)
Is the bubble finally starting to leak?
I think the cracks are starting to show daily at this point. Didn’t Oracle get denied funds from banks when they went to fund more DCs?
Oracle goimg broke would make me orgasm so hard I would probably break something in me.
https://www.moomoo.com/news/post/64927091/is-oracle-on-the-verge-of-collapse-with-banks-refusing?level=1&data_ticket=1774407017658499
So I did remember correctly.
That’s from Feb. So they’re having issues, since banks are not funding their shit like they hoped.
Love seeing this.
I hope there’s early warning when Oracle goes bankrupt. I need time to go buy enough party supplies.
“Wait, so you’re not going to help us eliminate most of our media staff? We’re out.”
I recently stopped working as a developer for Disney, and even if this deal is gone for using their IP in AI, they’re still really big on AI at the moment. From the C level there was a push for everyone to be using it as much as possible. Everyone needed to be showing how much they were integrating it into their workflows.
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