Netflix Pays Up to $600 Million for Ben Affleck's AI Film Editing Startup InterPositive

Netflix announced the acquisition of InterPositive, an AI company co-founded by Ben Affleck, in a deal Bloomberg sources valued at up to $600 million in March 2026 — the largest disclosed AI acquisition by a major streaming platform to date. InterPositive builds AI tools that help filmmakers work more efficiently in post-production: addressing continuity errors, enhancing scenes, correcting color and lighting inconsistencies, and accelerating the review cycle between director, editor, and VFX teams. Crucially, the company does not generate new content from scratch or use footage without permission, which positions it as a compliance-friendly acquisition in an industry where studios are watching AI and copyright liability closely. For Netflix, the deal accelerates an in-house AI post-production capability at a time when Amazon is building similar internal AI film teams and Disney has struck a deal with OpenAI for content production tooling.