An AI Division Becomes a Studio of Its Own
Deadline reports that Abundantia Entertainment launched an AI production division named Abundantia AiOn a year ago, and that it is now morphing into a fully standalone native AI studio that will seek to harness an influx of ideas from non-traditional sources.
The structural change is the interesting part. An AI unit inside an established producer is a tool: it makes the parent company's existing projects cheaper or faster. A separate studio with its own identity is a different animal — it competes for attention rather than serving someone else's slate. And an appetite for ideas from "non-traditional sources" suggests the bottleneck being targeted is where stories come from in the first place.
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Deadline reports the studio will develop its own stories and create its own content. That is what makes it a studio rather than a service.
It's also the part with nothing to do with the technology. Bringing in ideas from unusual places doesn't tell you whether the ideas are any good.