Ben Affleck's AI video startup InterPositive sold to Netflix for ~$590M
Alec_Coughlin · x · 2026-10-04
Ben Affleck discussed building InterPositive, the AI video startup he sold to Netflix for $590M. Seeing AI text-to-video first made him tell Matt Damon "we have to make as many movies as we can — we're finished," but he later felt video models lacked "cinematic language." His 16-person team spent 8 months shooting footage with various cameras as training inputs, aiming to let filmmakers build a model per film from dailies to ease post-production edits.
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