Meta launches Muse Ember for high-volume AI agent tasks
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Disney and Adobe agree to develop custom AI models
The multiyear partnership will initially focus on creative development at Disney Experiences and StudioLAB, with additional work planned for ESPN.
Disney and Adobe announced a multiyear agreement on November 9 to jointly develop generative AI models for Disney. The partnership aims to expand the use of AI across the company's theme parks, studios and sports media operations.
The initial work will focus on shortening development schedules at Disney Experiences, which includes parks, resorts and cruise lines, and supporting concept exploration at Walt Disney Studios' innovation hub, StudioLAB. Adobe will also help ESPN use AI to engage fans and make more archival content available.
The companies plan to use Adobe's Firefly Foundry to build models trained on Disney intellectual property, with the aim of producing material ready for production. Those models will be proprietary to Disney and kept private.
Walt Disney Imagineering has already deployed a custom image-generation model and another that transforms sketches into rendered concept art. Kyle Laughlin, Disney's senior vice president of R&D technology and engineering, said the tools had shortened parts of the creative process from months to hours or days.
Laughlin said faster iteration could reduce expensive changes during construction and that the tools were not intended to replace Imagineering roles. Separately, a media report earlier in November said Disney was considering thousands of job cuts and had asked some managers to target annual cost savings of 20%.