Goal is associated with Midjourney in image and video models of AI

Goal is Associate with Midjourney To license the technology of generation and videos AI of the startup, the director of the goal, Alexandr Wang, announced Friday in a publication about Threads. Wang says that Meta research teams will collaborate with Midjourney to bring their technology to future AI models and products.

“To ensure that goal can deliver the best possible products for people, it will require adopting an approach to the entire terrain,” Wang said. “This means world -class talent, ambitious computing roadmap and working with the best players in the industry.”

The Midjourney association could help the goal of developing products that compete with the models of images and videos of the leaders of AI, such as OpenAi Sora, Black Forest Lab and I see Google. Last year, Meta launched its own tool for the generation of images of AI, Imagine, in several of its products, including Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. Meta also has an AI videos generation tool, films gene, which allows users to create videos from indications.

The license agreement with Midjourney marks the last finish line to advance in the Race of AI. Earlier this year, the CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a hiring spree for the talent of AI, offering some investigators compensation packages worth more than $ 100 million. The giant of social networks also invested $ 14 billion in AI of scale, and acquired AI’s voice startup plays.

Meta has had conversations with several other leading Laboratories about other acquisitions, and Zuckerberg even spoke with Elon Musk about joining his acquisition offer of $ 97 billion Openai (goal finally did not join the offer, and OpenAi denied Musk’s offer).

While the terms of the finish line with Midjourney are still unknown, the CEO of the startup, David Holz, said in a Publish in x that your company remains independent without investors; Midjourney is one of the few main the main developers that has never assumed external funds. At one point, Meta spoke with Midjourney about acquiring the startupAccording to Upstarts Media.

Midjourney was founded in 2022 and quickly became a leader in the IA image generation space for its realistic and unique style. By 2023, the startup was in pace to generate $ 200 million In income. The startup sells subscriptions from $ 10 per month. It offers more expensive levels, which offer more generations of Ia images, which cost up to $ 120 per month. In June, the startup launched its first video model AI, V1.

The goal association with Midjourney occurs only two months after Disney and Universal demanded the startup, claiming that he trained the image of the IA image in copyright. Several AI models developers, including goal, face similar accusations of copyright holders, however, recent judicial cases related to AI training data have been put on the side of technological companies.

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