News Summary

• Meta is partnering with Midjourney to license the startup’s AI image and video generation technology.
• Last year, Meta rolled out its own AI image generation tool, Imagine, into several of its products, including Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger.
• The partnership comes just two months after the startup was sued by Disney and Universal, alleging that it trained AI models on copyrighted works.
• Several AI model developers — including Meta — face similar allegations from copyright holders, however, recent court cases pertaining to AI training data have sided with tech companies.