Canal+ Results: French Powerhouse Unveils Google AI Deal & Sky English-Language Drama Pact

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Canal+ has struck landmark deals with Google, OpenAI and Sky over AI and English-language drama as it unveils first full-year results since floating on the London Stock Exchange.

The French Paddington powerhouse has revealed a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud for its Canal+ app, with updates rolling out later this year.

The deal will see Canal+ “accelerate the content video indexing of its extensive content library,” it said, enabling “smarter more personalized content recommendation.” It has also taken on Google’s new genAI video technology, Veo3, which it said allows for “creative unlocking” of talent and producers, as it used the example of “recreating historical moments from a single archival photo.”

Canal+’s AI deal has come as big players work out how best to co-operate with growing artificial intelligence giants. Canal+ has also partnered with OpenAI on personalization improvements to its app. This comes a few months

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