Asteria And LTX Form Strategic Partnership With Goal Of Advancing Cinematic AI Storytelling

EXCLUSIVE: Tech-driven production company Asteria has formed a strategic partnership with video generation model maker LTX with the goal of advancing cinematic AI storytelling.

The goal of the team-up is to narrow the technical gap between AI video and professional-grade production. LTX will now be the generative engine of Asteria’s AI-driven production, with the result being capable of premium-hybrid outputs.

Since LTX-2 launched on computation platform Hugging Face in January 2026, it’s been downloaded more than 10 million times, making it the industry’s most-used open weights AI model, the company says. With Asteria’s involvement, the companies are aiming to amplify the feedback from colorists, visual effects supervisors, directors and other creative stakeholders.

“There are a lot of people successfully building AI video, but few are building it with filmmakers actually in the room,” Tian Pei, LTX’s director of business development, said in a statement. “We’re seeing tools that discourage the creative process. Asteria treats AI models as part of that craft and process, not a step bolted on at the end of production. Our partnership is a natural fit as we’re all focused on enhancing filmmaking as an art form.”