Saudi Makes Big Bet On AI Films As Hollywood Moves From Studios To Datacenters (reuters.com)
(Wednesday November 19, 2025 @05:45PM (BeauHD)
from the lights-camera-artificial-action dept.)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/11/19/2216207/saudi-makes-big-bet-on-ai-films-as-hollywood-moves-from-studios-to-datacenters
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amd-cisco-saudis-humain-launch-ai-joint-venture-land-first-major-customer-2025-11-19/
[1]pbahra writes:
> Saudi Arabia is betting that the future of Hollywood won't be built in physical stages but in datacenters. In a push to anchor itself in next-generation film production, Riyadh-based Humain has [2]led Luma AI's latest Series C round , backing the shift towards cloud-based, AI-generated video rather than traditional studio infrastructure.. Humain's announcement [3]says the new investment will accelerate Luma's development of world models capable of learning from video, audio and language to generate photorealistic scenes, environments and characters on demand. Supporters argue this could upend film-making by pushing much of Hollywood's production pipeline into high-performance datacenters rather than physical sets.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~pbahra
[2] https://www.agbi.com/media/2025/11/saudi-pif-humain-leads-funding-round-for-ai-hollywood-luma-ai/
[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amd-cisco-saudis-humain-launch-ai-joint-venture-land-first-major-customer-2025-11-19/
> Saudi Arabia is betting that the future of Hollywood won't be built in physical stages but in datacenters. In a push to anchor itself in next-generation film production, Riyadh-based Humain has [2]led Luma AI's latest Series C round , backing the shift towards cloud-based, AI-generated video rather than traditional studio infrastructure.. Humain's announcement [3]says the new investment will accelerate Luma's development of world models capable of learning from video, audio and language to generate photorealistic scenes, environments and characters on demand. Supporters argue this could upend film-making by pushing much of Hollywood's production pipeline into high-performance datacenters rather than physical sets.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~pbahra
[2] https://www.agbi.com/media/2025/11/saudi-pif-humain-leads-funding-round-for-ai-hollywood-luma-ai/
[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amd-cisco-saudis-humain-launch-ai-joint-venture-land-first-major-customer-2025-11-19/
Lets ask the studio exectcutives.... (Score:2)
by windwalker13th ( 954412 )
"Have you seen the man with six fingers on his right hand?" . . . because every movie will have at least 12 in the background, but only sometimes.
Sure....uh huh (Score:2)
And within a few years, every movie will start to look and sound the same.
oh wait.....