Meta collaborates with Midjourney to licensing the start -up AI -Billed and Video Overlings Technology, Meta -Manager AI officer Alexandr Wang announced on Friday in a thread post. Wang says Meta’s research team will collaborate with Midjourney to bring its technology into future AI models and products.
“To ensure that Meta is able to deliver the best possible products to people, it takes to take an all-o-over-approach,” Wang said. “This means world -class talent, ambitious calculated timetable and working with the best players in the whole industry.”
The Midjourney partnership could help Meta develop products that compete with industry-leading AI image and video models, such as Openais Sora, Black Forest Lab’s Flux and Google VEO. Last year, Meta rolled its own AI image generation tool, imagine, into several of its products, including Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. Meta also has an AI Video Other Tool, the Movie gene that allows users to create videos from prompt.
The License Agreement with Midjourney marks Meta’s latest agreement to move forward in the AI ​​race. Earlier this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on an employment field to AI talent and offered some researchers compensation packages worth up to $ 100 million. The social media giant also invested $ 14 billion in scale AI and acquired AI Voice Startup Play AI.
Meta has held conversations with several other leading AI laboratories about other acquisitions, and Zuckerberg even spoke with Elon Musk about joining his $ 97 billion acquisition bid (Meta eventually did not connect the offer, and Openai refused Musk’s bid).
While the conditions for Meta’s agreement with Midjourney remain unknown, Startup’s CEO, David Holz, said in a post of X that his company remains independent without investors; Midjourney is one of the few leading AI model developers who have never taken funding outside. At one point, Meta spoke with Midjourney about acquiring start -up, according to Upstarts Media.
Midjourney was founded in 2022 and quickly became a leader in the AI ​​images room for its realistic, unique style. By 2023, the startup was reportedly at the pace of generating $ 200 million in revenue. The startup sells subscriptions starting at $ 10 per day. Month. It offers more expensive levels that offer multiple AI image generations that cost as much as $ 120 per day. Month. In June, Start -up released its first AI video model, V1.
TechCrunch -event
San Francisco
|
27-29. October 2025
Meta’s partnership with Midjourney comes just two months after the startup was sued by Disney and Universal, claiming that the trained AI image models on copyrighted works. Several AI model developers -including meta -face similar accusations from copyright holders, but recent litigation relating to AI training data, have been sitting with tech companies.
Do you have a sensitive tip or confidential documents? We report on the inner work of the AI ​​industry – from the companies that shape its future to the people who are influenced by their decisions. Reach out to Rebecca Bellan on rebecca.bellan@techcrunch.com and Maxwell Zeff on MAXWELL.ZEFF@TECHCRUNCH.com. For secure communication you can contact us via signal at @rebeccabellan.491 and @MZeff.88.
We always seek to develop, and by providing some insight into your perspective and feedback to TechCrunch and our coverage and events, you can help us! Complete out This study To tell us how we feel and get the chance to win a prize in return!