Adobe becomes Disney’s AI partner to build models on its characters
THE SO WHAT
Disney standardizing on Adobe as its “Official AI Innovation Partner” to train models on its characters and styles formalizes IP-native foundation models as a category. If you own valuable content or brand assets, the question is no longer whether to build a proprietary model layer, but who you trust to co-develop and govern it.
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