Meta's chief AI officer said that the company is partnering with Midjourney to license its AI image and video model technology.

Meta froze AI hiring to reorganize its superintelligence lab after months of luring talent with lavish offers.

Meta Platforms is “investing more and more” into its artificial-intelligence efforts according to chief AI officer Alexandr Wang.

The freeze went into effect last week, and it’s not clear how long it will last, The Journal’s sources say. Meta is still likely working through its reorg, which split its AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs,

The partnership with Midjourney ties directly into Meta’s goals for AI imagery across its services. The Meta AI app is built around a feed of AI-generated images and videos. Facebook has added a button to create AI images when you go to make a new post. There are options to generate AI images within chats in WhatsApp and Instagram, too.

The Meta logo marks the entrance of its corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Nov. 9, 2022. Facebook owner Meta plans to lay off more than 11,000 of its staff in “the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Aug. 20, 2025.

The partnership is one of the first big moves from Meta's newly revamped AI team. Here's what we know so far. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators.

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According to the Times report on Tuesday, Meta is overhauling its newly formed Superintelligence Lab, by breaking it up into four smaller teams. The teams will reportedly focus on AI research, developing superintelligence (a form of AI more advanced than human intelligence), AI products, and AI infrastructure such as data centers, the Times said.

Alexandr Wang, Meta’s new chief AI officer, said in a post on X on Friday that the company planned to license Midjourney’s “aesthetic technology for our future models and products, bringing beauty to billions” in a “technical collaboration” between their research teams.