Meta is licensing Midjourney’s AI picture and video tech

Meta has signed a partnership with Midjourney, an AI service that may generate photos and movies from textual content prompts. In response to Alexandr Wang, Meta’s Chief AI Officer, Meta is licensing Midjourney’s “aesthetic expertise” for its future fashions and merchandise. “To make sure Meta is ready to ship the very best merchandise for folks it’s going to require taking an all-of-the-above strategy. This implies world-class expertise, bold compute roadmap, and dealing with one of the best gamers throughout the trade,” Wang added.

The corporate beforehand launched its personal AI image generator and AI video editor, however Midjourney’s expertise may assist Meta provide providers that may truly compete with rivals’, comparable to OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Veo. Midjourney made V7 its default mannequin for picture technology again in June. It described V7 as an “completely new” AI picture technology mannequin that is a lot smarter at processing textual content prompts than its predecessors. It additionally launched its V1 video model, which permits customers to show the pictures they generate into a brief animated video, on the identical time. “We’re extremely impressed by Midjourney. They’ve achieved true feats of technical and aesthetic excellence, and we’re thrilled to be working extra intently with them,” Wang mentioned on X.

This partnership is however Meta’s newest transfer in its quest to kind a Superintelligence laboratory and change into a serious participant within the AI sphere. Mark Zuckerberg went on a hiring spreed and managed to persuade a number of key gamers from rivals to hitch his firm as an alternative by providing them large salaries and signing bonuses. Wang himself turned the corporate’s Chief AI workplace after Meta invested $14.8 billion in Scale AI, the corporate he based.