Meta Is Licensing Midjourney's Ai Image And Video Tech

Meta has signed a business pinch Midjourney, an AI work that tin make images and videos from matter prompts. According to Alexandr Wang, Meta's Chief AI Officer, Meta is licensing Midjourney's "aesthetic technology" for its early models and products. "To guarantee Meta is capable to present nan champion imaginable products for group it will require taking an all-of-the-above approach. This intends world-class talent, eager compute roadmap, and moving pinch nan champion players crossed nan industry," Wang added.

The institution antecedently launched its ain AI image generator and AI video editor, but Midjourney's exertion could thief Meta connection services that tin really compete pinch rivals', specified arsenic OpenAI's Sora and Google's Veo. Midjourney made V7 its default exemplary for image procreation backmost successful June. It described V7 arsenic an "entirely new" AI image procreation exemplary that's overmuch smarter astatine processing matter prompts than its predecessors. It besides released its V1 video model, which allows users to move nan images they make into a short animated video, astatine nan aforesaid time. "We are incredibly impressed by Midjourney. They person accomplished existent feats of method and artistic excellence, and we are thrilled to beryllium moving much intimately pinch them," Wang said connected X.

This business is but Meta's latest move successful its quest to shape a Superintelligence laboratory and go a awesome subordinate successful nan AI sphere. Mark Zuckerberg went connected a hiring spreed and managed to person respective cardinal players from rivals to subordinate his institution alternatively by offering them monolithic salaries and signing bonuses. Wang himself became nan company's Chief AI agency aft Meta invested $14.8 billion successful Scale AI, nan institution he founded.