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.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting big on small, elite AI teams, like the secretive TBD Lab led by Alexandr Wang, to develop advanced AI models. This

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

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.

Meta has signed a deal with generative AI lab Midjourney to license the startup's "aesthetic technology" for the social media company's future models and products.

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,

Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon's spending in particular has cut into cash flows.

Meta Platforms has paused hiring for its AI division, ending a spending spree that saw the company acquire a wave of high-priced AI researchers and engineers.