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Policy2026-06-24 · source-backed
On June 22, DeepMind took its first-ever equity position in a film studio, $75M in A24, in a multiyear partnership to co-develop AI filmmaking tools on Veo, with A24 directors testing inside live productions. Demis Hassabis framed it as building "directly with" artists. The deal drew immediate filmmaker backlash. It's frontier labs shifting from selling generic models to embedding research teams inside a specific creative vertical to shape the workflow from the inside, and the labor reaction is the governance story to watch. When the lab co-owns the studio, "we built this with artists" and "we automated the artists" stop being distinguishable from the outside.
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