Disney will invest $1 billion in OpenAI and license more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars for Sora. The deal brings together money, rights and technology in a formula with major implications for Hollywood.
Meta has unveiled Movie Gen, a family of models that generates videos with synchronized audio and lets users edit footage through text prompts. The company presents it as a research advance and has not released it as a public product.
Runway has unveiled Gen-3 Alpha, a generative video model promising more faithful scenes, more coherent motion and greater creative control. The launch intensifies competition with OpenAI and Google in a technology still constrained by its cost and its mistakes.
Adobe has unveiled generative AI tools coming to Premiere Pro to extend shots and add or remove objects. The company is also exploring third-party video models, including Sora and Runway.
The WGA wants to limit generative AI in screenwriting and prevent writers’ work from training these systems. The proposal opens a labor front that extends beyond Hollywood.
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