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Title: Meta is licensing Midjourney's AI image and video tech

Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:00:12 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-is-licensing...

Meta has signed a partnership with Midjourney, an AI service that can
generate images and videos from text prompts. According to Alexandr Wang,
Meta's Chief AI Officer, Meta is licensing Midjourney's "aesthetic
technology" for its future models and products. "To ensure Meta is able to
deliver the best possible products for people it will require taking an all-
of-the-above approach. This means world-class talent, ambitious compute
roadmap, and working with the best players across the industry," Wang added.

1/ Today weΓÇÖre proud to announce a partnership with @midjourney, to license
their aesthetic technology for our future models and products, bringing
beauty to billions.

ΓÇö Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) August 22, 2025

The company previously launched its own AI image generator and AI video
editor, but Midjourney's technology could help Meta offer services that can
actually compete with rivals', such as OpenAI's Sora and Google's Veo.
Midjourney made V7 its default model for image generation back in June. It
described V7 as an "entirely new" AI image generation model that's much
smarter at processing text prompts than its predecessors. It also released
its V1 video model, which allows users to turn the images they generate into
a short animated video, at the same time. "We are incredibly impressed by
Midjourney. They have accomplished true feats of technical and aesthetic
excellence, and we are thrilled to be working more closely with them," Wang
said on X.

This partnership is but Meta's latest move in its quest to form a
Superintelligence laboratory and become a major player in the AI sphere. Mark
Zuckerberg went on a hiring spreed and managed to convince several key
players from rivals to join his company instead by offering them massive
salaries and signing bonuses. Wang himself became the company's Chief AI
office after Meta invested $14.8 billion in Scale AI, the company he founded.

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