Meta partners with Midjourney on AI image and video models

Meta is partnering with Midjournyy to License the Startup’s Ai Image and Video Generation Technology, Meta Chief Ai Office Alexandr Wang Announced Fried in A Post on Threads. Wang says Meta’s research teams will cooperate with Midjourney to bring her technology to future artificial artificial intelligence models and products.

“To ensure that Meta can provide the best possible products to people who will require a full pregnancy approach,” said Wang. “This means that talents with a global level, an ambitious road map, and work with the best players all over the industry.”

Midjourney Meta partnership can help develop products that compete with the leading image and video models in industry, such as Sora’s Sora, Black Forest Lab and Google’s Veo. Last year, Meta released its AI’s photo generation tool, imagining, in many of its products, including Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. Meta also contains AI’s video generation, Gen, allows users to create videos of claims.

The license agreement with Midjourney Marks is the latest Meta deal to move in the artificial intelligence race. Earlier this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg went in a spray to use the talents of artificial intelligence, as he submitted some of the researchers’ compensation of $ 100 million. The social media giant has also invested $ 14 billion of artificial intelligence, and AI Voice Startup Play Ai has gained.

Meta had talks with many leading Amnesty International laboratories on other acquisitions, Zuckerberg spoke with Elon Musk about joining his $ 97 billion offer from Openai (Meta was not eventually joining the offer, and Openai has been deprived of MUPEN).

While the conditions of the Meta deal with Midjourney are still unknown, Startup CEO, David Holz, said in a post on X that his company is still independent without investors; Midjourney is one of the few developers of artificial intelligence who has never been taken for external financing. At one point, Meta talked to Midjourney about getting the startup, according to UPSTARTS Media.

Midjourney was founded in 2022 and soon became a pioneer in the area of ​​generating artificial intelligence for its unique realistic style. By 2023, it was reported that an emerging company was at a pace to generate $ 200 million in revenue. It sells the start of subscriptions that start from $ 10 per month. It provides more batch levels, which provide more generations of artificial intelligence image, which cost up to $ 120 per month. In June, the startup company released the first AI, V1 video.

Meta’s partnership with Midjourney comes just two months after a lawsuit against Startup by Disney and Universal, claiming that it trained artificial intelligence models for copyright works. Many developers of artificial intelligence models – including Meta – face similar allegations of copyright holders, however, the recent court cases related to artificial intelligence training data have risen to technology companies.

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