Goal is Collaborating with Midjourney To licensed the technology of generation of startup images and videos, Alexandr Wang of Meta Chief at Alexandr Wang announced on Friday. Wang says that Meta’s research teams will collaborate with Midjourney to bring his technology into future artificial intelligence models and products.

“To ensure that Meta is able to offer the best possible product for people, it will require the whole world to tinged an approach,” said Wang. “This means world -class talent, ambitious calculation roadmap and working with the best actors in the sector.”

Midjourney’s partnership could help Meta develop products that make up the models of images and videos of the industry leaders, such as Openi’s Sora, flow of Black Forest Lab and Google’s Veo. Last year, Meta has launched its tool for generation of images toImagine, in many of its products, included Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. Meta also has a tool of generation of video ai, movie gen, This allows users to create videos from instructions.

The problem of licenses with Midjourney marks the latest goal agreement to go on in the AI ​​race. At the beginning of this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg continued to take madness for the talent of the AIOffering some researchers compensation packages for a value of $ 100 million. The social media giant has also invested $ 14 billion In scale ai, e acquired The vocal startup to play ai.

Meta has held talks with many other leader workshops on other acquisitions and Zuckerberg has even spoken with Elon Musk Combining its acquisition offer from $ 97 billion in Openai (Meta in the end did not join the offer and Openi denied Musk’s offer).

While the terms of the goal agreement with Midjourney remain unknown, said the startup CEO, David Holz Placed on x That company remains independent without investors; Midjourney is one of the few main developers of AI models that he has never taken on external funding. At some point, Meta spoke with Midjourney Acquisition of the startAccording to the media up starts.

Midjourney was founded in 2022 and quickly became a leader in the space of the generation of images Ai for his realistic and unique style. By 2023, the start was reported to the step to generate $ 200 million of revenue. The Sels Startup subscription image for $ 10 per month. It offers third parties, which offered multiple generations of artificial intelligence images, which cost up to $ 120 per month. In June, The startup has released its first model of Video Ai, V1.

The partnership of Meta with Midjourney arrives only two months after the The start was sued by Disney and UniversalArguing that he trained the models of artificial intelligence images on copyright protected works. Different developers of artificial intelligence models – including Meta – face similar accusations from copyright holders, however, recent courtyard peat for training data They lined up with technological companies.

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