The film, called ‘Critterz,’ aims to debut at the Cannes Film Festival and will leverage the startup’s AI tools and resources
OpenAI wants to prove that generative artificial intelligence can make movies faster and cheaper than Hollywood does today.
The startup is lending its tools and computing resources to the creation of a feature-length animated movie made largely with AI that is expected to be released in theaters globally next year.
“Critterz,” about forest creatures who go on an adventure after their village is disrupted by a stranger, is the brainchild of Chad Nelson, a creative specialist at OpenAI. Nelson started sketching out the characters three years ago while trying to make a short film with what was then OpenAI’s new DALL-E image-generation tool.
