Overview
- Amazon MGM Studios' AI Studio, led by Albert Cheng, will invite industry partners to test its production tools in March, with initial findings expected by May.
- The effort relies on Amazon Web Services and multiple large language model providers, with safeguards to protect intellectual property and prevent external model training on outputs.
- Early collaborators include Robert Stromberg’s Secret City, Kunal Nayyar’s Good Karma Productions, and former Pixar and ILM animator Colin Brady.
- Amazon points to Prime Video’s House of David as a proof of concept, citing roughly 350 AI-generated shots in season two to expand scope at lower cost.
- The rollout comes as Hollywood weighs job impacts of generative AI, after Amazon cited AI progress while cutting roughly 30,000 corporate roles since October.