Meta is going to stuff Midjourney AI images into your feed

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

Wang didn’t specify the presumption 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 similar OpenAI and Google. Mark Zuckerberg has personally worked to poach AI researchers from different companies with humongous offers — Wang lone joined Meta aft it paid $14.3 cardinal to get 49 percent of Scale AI, the institution helium co-founded.

The concern with 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 make AI images erstwhile you spell to marque a caller post. There are options to make AI images wrong chats successful WhatsApp and Instagram, too.

Midjourney got connected the representation for its AI representation and video procreation tools. As Meta works to physique retired features similar the Meta AI app’s societal feed, it’s casual to ideate Meta relying connected Midjourney’s tech to assistance radical marque better-looking photos and videos.

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

Even with the partnership, Midjourney remains “an independent, community-backed probe lab” with “no investors,” founder and CEO David Holz says.