Netflix's ~$587M buy of Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive
InterPositive, the film-AI company Ben Affleck founded in 2022, was acquired by Netflix in March 2026, with the team joining the streamer and Affleck staying on as a senior adviser; an SEC 10-Q filing later showed a roughly $587 million cash acquisition that month. Affleck has since detailed the approach in a Bloomberg Screentime appearance and a GQ interview: the team spent about eight months capturing a proprietary dataset in controlled stages using cameras, LiDAR, tracking gear and virtual-production setups, so models first learn filmmaking grammar — lens language, lighting, editorial continuity — and are then adapted on each project's own dailies, an approach TheWrap describes as a per-film "mini-model" used to fill missing shots, recompose, fix lighting and replace backgrounds. He confirmed his upcoming Netflix film "Animals" used the tools in several stages but declined to say which shots were processed.
It shows an alternative route for video AI into film production: proprietary, process-specific data plus per-project adaptation instead of a single general-purpose text-to-video model.