Netflix has acquired celebrity Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup for up to $600 million. American actor and director Affleck had quietly founded the AI company and also made a quiet sale of a small experimental asset to a major streaming platform as an industry asset.

Not much is known about the niche, visual effects startup. However, reports say that it has a team of about 16 people who tightly focus technical ideas into film productions. InterPositive, as the firm is called, has a patent that is said to have immense potential and the celebrity actor has been named as its inventor.

The patent was filed by InterPositive on March 12, 2025. The filing describes the patent as “Method, System and Computer-Readable Medium for training a captioner model to generate captions for video content by analyzing and predicting cinematic elements.” 

InterPositive has developed a model that helps production teams to work with their own footage and make edits, post production. Some of this work includes ensuring continuity, adjusting lighting and adding other enhancements to the environment.

Ben Affleck has detailed how their AI model has been “trained to understand visual logic and editorial consistency” and to preserve “cinematic rules under real-world production challenges,” and it is expected to “protect creative intent” while using technology to enhance storytelling.

The celebrity actor will be a senior adviser as part of the deal with the streaming giant. However, financial details of the deal have not been disclosed.

Elizabeth Stone, the chief product and technology officer at Netflix also released a statement that noted that Netflix and the InterPositive team shared the “belief that innovation should empower storytellers, not replace them.”