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‘Surpassing all my expectations’: Midjourney releases first AI video model amid Disney, Universal lawsuit


For enterprise leaders evaluating AI, Midjourney Video V1's a double-edged sword: a low-cost, fast-evolving tool with strong user adoption

The studios allege that Midjourney has created a “bottomless pit of plagiarism,” intentionally enabling users to produce downloadable images featuring characters like Darth Vader, Elsa, Iron Man, Bart Simpson, Shrek, and Toothless with little friction. The lawsuit is expected to test the limits of U.S. copyright law as it relates to AI training data and output control—and could influence how platforms like Midjourney, OpenAI, and others must structure future content filters or licensing agreements. Odyssey, a startup co-founded by self-driving tech veterans Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, recently debuted a system that streams video at 30 frames per second with spatial interaction capabilities.

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