Netflix Acquires AI Filmmaking Start-Up Founded by Ben Affleck, Who Will Serve as Adviser to Streamer

In a rare acquisition, Netflix has bought InterPositive, a start-up founded by Ben Affleck that makes AI-powered tools for filmmakers.

Terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed. The entire 16-person InterPositive team of engineers, researchers and creatives will join Netflix through the acquisition, and Affleck will serve as a senior adviser to Netflix to provide ongoing guidance.

While Netflix historically is more often a builder than a buyer, the company said it saw Affleck’s InterPositive as providing a unique set of AI tools that “keeps filmmakers at the center of the process.” Netflix will offer access to InterPositive’s tech to its creative partners and does not have plans to sell it commercially in the marketplace.

Affleck’s L.A.-based company, which has been in stealth mode since he founded it in 2022, does not produce generative AI videos à la OpenAI’s Sora. “It’s not about…