# OpenAI is securing significant funding and partnerships with Amazon, Disney, Broadcom, AMD.

*semiconductor · news · 2026-04-09 · The Economic Times*

## Key points

- Meta expanded its cloud capacity agreement with CoreWeave to $21 billion for AI infrastructure.
- Disney will let OpenAI use Star Wars, Pixar, and Marvel characters in its Sora AI video generator.
- OpenAI partnered with Broadcom to produce its first in-house AI processors amid rising demand.
- Nvidia agreed to acquire Groq's assets for $20 billion and hire its CEO and engineers.
- Meta took a 49% stake in Scale AI for $14.3 billion, integrating its CEO into Meta's AI strategy.

**Companies:** Meta, Amazon, Disney, Broadcom, AMD, Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave, Anthropic, Manus, Scale AI, Groq, Lumentum, Coherent, Aligned Data Centers
**Countries:** United States, China, Japan, South Korea

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