Meta Is Going To Stuff Midjourney Ai Images Into Your Feed

Meta is partnering pinch Midjourney to “license their artistic technology” for usage successful its ain models and products, Meta’s caller main AI officer, Alexandr Wang, announced connected Friday. The business involves a “technical collaboration betwixt our investigation teams,” Wang said, suggesting nan woody involves much than simply utilizing Midjourney’s existing merchandise crossed Meta services.

Wang didn’t specify nan position of arrangement. Meta spokesperson Ashley Gabriel declined to remark and pointed to Wang’s posts. Midjourney didn’t instantly reply to requests for comment. 

Meta has been investing heavy successful its AI “superintelligence” efforts arsenic of precocious to drawback up to rivals for illustration OpenAI and Google. Mark Zuckerberg has personally worked to poach AI researchers from different companies pinch humongous offers — Wang only joined Meta aft it paid $14.3 cardinal to get 49 percent of Scale AI, nan institution he co-founded.

The business pinch Midjourney ties straight into Meta’s goals for AI imagery crossed its services. The Meta AI app is built astir a feed of AI-generated images and videos. Facebook has added a fastener to create AI images erstwhile you spell to make a caller post. There are options to make AI images wrong chats successful WhatsApp and Instagram, too.

Midjourney sewage connected nan representation for its AI image and video procreation tools. As Meta useful to build retired features for illustration nan Meta AI app’s societal feed, it’s easy to ideate Meta relying connected Midjourney’s tech to thief group make better-looking photos and videos.

“We are incredibly impressed by Midjourney,” Wang says. “They person accomplished existent feats of method and artistic excellence, and we are thrilled to beryllium moving much intimately pinch them.” The 2 companies will stock much astir what they’re moving connected together “soon.”

Even pinch nan partnership, Midjourney remains “an independent, community-backed investigation lab” pinch “no investors,” founder and CEO David Holz says.