{"slug": "moonvalley", "title": "Moonvalley", "summary": "Moonvalley, an AI research lab, released Marey, a text-to-video and image-to-video model trained exclusively on licensed and public-domain footage, positioning it as commercially safe for professional studios and brands. The company raised $84 million led by General Catalyst with participation from Creative Artists Agency, CoreWeave, and Comcast Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $154 million. Marey launched publicly in 2025, offering control over motion, lighting, and cinematic detail, with pricing available through sales contact.", "body_md": "# Moonvalley\n\nMoonvalley builds Marey, a text-to-video and image-to-video model trained entirely on licensed footage for commercially safe production work.\n\n## Overview\n\n## Moonvalley\n\nMoonvalley is a research lab whose product, Marey, is the video model built for studios that have to answer for their [training data](/glossary/training-data). Moonvalley trained Marey exclusively on licensed and public-domain footage rather than material scraped from the web, and sells it as a commercially safe generative videography tool for professional filmmakers and brands. The model does [text-to-video](/glossary/text-to-video) and image-to-video with control over motion, lighting and cinematic detail, which is the axis professional users care about more than raw novelty.\n\n**Production credibility:** Moonvalley raised $84M led by General Catalyst with strategic investment from Creative Artists Agency, CoreWeave and Comcast Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $154M. Marey was released publicly in 2025 as the first production-grade video model the company describes as fully licensed, and the licensing position has been covered independently rather than only asserted in marketing. Pricing is not published on the site; access runs through signup and sales contact.\n\n### Key Features\n\n- Marey model trained only on licensed and public-domain footage\n- Text-to-video and image-to-video generation\n- Direction over motion, lighting and cinematic detail\n- Positioned as commercially safe for brand and studio work\n- Backed by Creative Artists Agency alongside financial investors\n- Aimed at professional filmmakers rather than casual creators\n\n### Ideal Use Case\n\nStudios, agencies and brands that cannot use a model whose training data is contested, either because legal will not sign off or because a client contract forbids it. It also fits filmmakers who want directable output — specific motion and lighting — rather than the best single random generation.\n\n### How Moonvalley differentiates\n\nRunway, Kling, Luma and Pika compete on capability and speed, and none of them makes clean training-data provenance the product. Moonvalley does: the licensing is the differentiator, and the CAA investment signals where it expects demand to come from. The trade-off is straightforward — a licensed corpus is smaller than the open web, so buyers should compare output quality directly rather than assume parity, and pricing has to be established through sales.\n\n### FAQ\n\n**Q: What is Moonvalley?**\nA: Moonvalley is an [AI](/glossary/ai) research lab building Marey, a video generation model trained entirely on licensed and public-domain footage, aimed at professional filmmakers and brands.\n\n**Q: What is Marey?**\nA: Marey is Moonvalley's foundational text-to-video and image-to-video model, released publicly in 2025, with direction over motion, lighting and cinematic detail.\n\n**Q: Is Moonvalley's training data licensed?**\nA: Yes. Moonvalley states that Marey is trained exclusively on fully licensed and public-domain footage rather than scraped web data, which is the basis of its commercially safe positioning.\n\n**Q: How much has Moonvalley raised?**\nA: Moonvalley raised $84M led by General Catalyst with Creative Artists Agency, CoreWeave and Comcast Ventures participating, bringing total funding to around $154M.\n\n**Q: How much does Moonvalley cost?**\nA: Pricing is not published on the site. Access runs through signup or a conversation with the company.\n\n### tl;dr\n\nMoonvalley builds Marey, a text-to-video and image-to-video model trained only on licensed and public-domain footage, sold as commercially safe for studios and brands. Around $154M raised, including $84M led by General Catalyst with CAA participating.\n\n## Why Use Moonvalley\n\n## User Reviews\n\n## Similar Tools\n\n[AI Art & Image CreationRunwayReimagining Video and Image CreativityFreemium★ 4.92♥ 385](/tools/runway)\n\n[AI Art & Image CreationLuma Labs AIAI video and 3D — Dream Machine, Ray2, and Genie from Luma Labs.Paid★ 4.93♥ 389](/tools/luma-labs-ai)\n\n[Video CreationPikaAI-driven platform for effortless, diverse-style video creationFree★ 4.82♥ 277](/tools/pika)\n\n[Video CreationKling AICinematic text-to-video generator with realistic motion and long shots.Freemium★ 4.77♥ 235](/tools/kling-ai)\n\n[Video CreationHiggsfield AICinematic AI video gen with viral 'preset shots' — VFX-grade camera moves, character consistency, social-ready output.Freemium★ 4.92♥ 460](/tools/higgsfield-ai)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/moonvalley", "canonical_source": "https://tooldirectory.ai/tools/moonvalley", "published_at": "2026-08-28 12:45:24+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-28 13:18:17.275832+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-startups", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Moonvalley", "Marey", "General Catalyst", "Creative Artists Agency", "CoreWeave", "Comcast Ventures"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/moonvalley", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/moonvalley.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/moonvalley.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/moonvalley.jsonld"}}