Disney , Warner Bros. Discovery and NBCUniversal are taking legal aim at another AI company that they allege is massively ripping off their intellectual property.

On Tuesday, the three media companies filed a lawsuit against MiniMax , a Chinese AI company that is reportedly valued at $4 billion, alleging “willful and brazen” copyright infringement. According to the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, MiniMax disregards U.S. copyright law by treating the studios’ copyrighted characters as if those were its own.

“MiniMax operates Hailuo AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence image and video generating service that pirates and plunders Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works on a massive scale,” the companies said in the lawsuit, filed Tuesday. “Min

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