The Rundown AI: Moonvalley, a startup founded by ex-DeepMind researchers, just released Marey — a filmmaker-focused AI video model trained exclusively on licensed content that gives directors granular control over scenes.


🎬 Moonvalley debuts filmmaker-friendly video AI
Image source: Moonvalley
The Rundown: Moonvalley, a startup founded by ex-DeepMind researchers, just released Marey — a filmmaker-focused AI video model trained exclusively on licensed content that gives directors granular control over scenes.
The details:
Marey is trained exclusively on licensed footage to avoid copyright issues that plague other AI startups, heavily sourced from indie filmmakers and agencies.The model gives directors precise control over camera moves, character motion, backgrounds, and lighting, integrating directly into VFX workflows. Pricing starts at $14.99 monthly for 100 credits, scaling up to $149.99 for 1,000 credits — with each five-second clip costing roughly $1-2 to render.The company has raised over $100M to date and launched Marey alongside Asteria Film Co., an AI animation studio acquired by Moonvalley.
Why it matters: As Hollywood’s AI anxiety peaks, Marey is a test of whether ethical AI can win over creators. With a “clean” training set and a platform that acts as a precise director tool instead of a “luck” based video slot machine, Marey could help shift AI’s narrative around tinseltown from existential threat to creative partnership.

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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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