Image generation
Photorealistic and stylised images from text.
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Facts
- Lane
- Media and creative
- Wave
- 5 of 12 (build order, not a date)
- Needs
- 8 boxes all the way back through hard links
- Unlocks
- 7 boxes downstream through hard links
- Leverage
- None: already built
- Cluster
- Around licensed generative media
Evidence as of October 2026
Image models are mature enough that the fight has moved to rights: Disney and Warner Bros. are suing Midjourney in a consolidated case still active in October 2026.