Netflix is buying Ben Affleck’s AI startup

Streaming AI News Netflix is buying Ben Affleck’s AI startup Affleck is also joining the streamer as a senior adviser. Affleck is also joining the streamer as a senior adviser. by Charles Pulliam-Moore Mar 5, 2026, 6:27 PM UTC Image: Getty Images Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Though Netflix lost the war for Warner Bros. , it has just bought an AI startup from the internet’s favorite Dunkin’ Donuts aficionado . Today, Netflix announced that it has acquired InterPositive, Ben Affleck’s AI company that specializes in tools for film and television production. The deal will see all 16 of InterPositive’s current team of engineers and researchers move over to Netflix. Affleck is also set to join the streamer as a senior adviser. In a statement about the acquisition and his reasons for founding InterPositive in 2022, Affleck said he was inspired to get into the tech space after “observing the early rise of AI in production” and finding many of the tools lacking. Affleck felt that he “had a responsibility to peers and our industry, to protect the power of human creativity and the people behind it.” And he thinks that Netflix’s history of “applying and scaling technology responsibly” makes them the ideal partner to take InterPositive to the next level. “I wanted to build a workflow that captures what happens on a set, with vocabulary that matched the language cinematographers and directors already spoke and included the kind of consistency and controls they would expect,” Affleck explained. Unlike AI models designed to generate visual outputs based on text, InterPositive’s tech is focused on ingesting dailies (raw footage from in-progress productions) and creating assets that can then be incorporated into the post-production process. In a video with Netflix’s chief technology officer Elizabeth Stone and head content officer...