Nfinite.ai Collaborates with Getty Images to Bring 2D Visual Content into the 3D, Physical AI Era
Rhea-AI Summary
Nfinite.ai and Getty Images (GETY) announced a strategic collaboration on January 13, 2026 to convert selected 2D content into high-fidelity 3D datasets for training spatially-aware AI. The partnership gives Nfinite.ai on-demand access to Getty Images' creative library to generate structured 3D assets with geometry, materials, lighting, spatial relationships, and camera parameters.
Targeted uses include scene understanding, object detection, embodied robotics simulation, multimodal generative models, and photorealistic synthetic data, with an emphasis on responsibly sourced, copyright-respecting data.
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- On-demand access to Getty Images creative library for 3D conversion
- Creates structured 3D assets with geometry, materials, lighting, and camera parameters
- Supports training for scene understanding, object detection, and embodied AI
- Aims to alleviate shortage of responsibly sourced, high-quality spatial AI data
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News Market Reaction
On the day this news was published, GETY declined 0.77%, reflecting a mild negative market reaction.
Data tracked by StockTitan Argus on the day of publication.
Market Reality Check
Peers on Argus
Peers were mixed: SSTK (-2.01%), ANGI (-5.8%), CARS (-0.08%), while FVRR rose 0.61% and TBLA was flat. GETY was unchanged, indicating this AI partnership is company-specific rather than part of a clear sector rotation.
Historical Context
| Date | Event | Sentiment | Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 08 | Platform launch | Positive | +0.0% | Launch of Access by Getty Images real-time licensing platform. |
| Dec 15 | Marketing trends | Positive | -0.7% | Release of 2026 Visual Marketing Trends research and guidance. |
| Dec 03 | Brand showcase | Positive | -0.7% | 2025 Year in Review highlighting major global visual coverage. |
| Dec 02 | Brand partnership | Positive | +0.7% | Culture@ campaign partnership with BLACK PEARL and Canon. |
| Nov 12 | Event coverage | Positive | -2.4% | Announcement of coverage plans for Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics. |
Recent news around partnerships and branding has often met with muted or negative price reactions, even when operationally positive.
Over the past two months, Getty Images has focused on product innovation, brand positioning, and marquee event coverage. A Dec 2, 2025 partnership campaign and the Jan 8, 2026 Access by Getty Images launch highlighted new distribution and monetization angles, while the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics and 2025 Year in Review underscored editorial reach. Despite generally constructive narratives, several of these updates saw negative or flat 24-hour price reactions, suggesting investor skepticism or limited near-term financial visibility around such announcements.
Market Pulse Summary
This announcement highlights a strategic collaboration that taps Getty Images’ 2D creative library to generate high-fidelity 3D datasets for spatially aware AI. It ties into a recent stream of product and partnership news, from entertainment-focused platforms to major event coverage, underscoring a push to align content with emerging AI use cases. Investors may watch for concrete metrics such as usage, licensing structures, or follow-on deals that clarify how such AI partnerships translate into revenue and strengthen Getty Images’ competitive position.
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Nfinite.ai to convert content from Getty Images' vast creative library into high fidelity 3D datasets able to power the next generation of spatially intelligent AI
The partnership marks a significant step forward in bridging the gap between traditional visual media and the data infrastructure required to build and train spatially-aware, multi-modal AI models able to perceive, understand, and interact with the physical world autonomously.
"We're pleased to work with the team at Nfinite.ai to support the development of responsibly sourced, high-quality 3D and physical AI training capabilities." said Peter Orlowsky, SVP of Strategic Development at Getty Images. "By providing a curated set of quality creative content, we're helping simplify and strengthen the way next-generation models are trained. We look forward to seeing how this work enables more accurate and impactful AI applications."
From Pixels to Physical Intelligence: Enabling AI Systems That Understand the Real World
Through this collaboration, Nfinite.ai will receive on-demand access to Getty Images' creative library, allowing selected images and visuals to be transformed and enriched from 2D into 3D assets — including object geometry, material properties, lighting conditions, spatial relationships, and camera parameters. These structured 3D datasets provide the rich and highly detailed environmental context and multimodal grounding required to train AI systems in:
- Scene understanding and spatial reasoning
- Object detection and segmentation
- Embodied AI and robotics simulation
- Multimodal generative models (e.g. text-to-3D, video synthesis)
- Photorealistic rendering and synthetic data augmentation
By leveraging Getty Images' vast creative library, the collaboration directly addresses one of AI's biggest bottlenecks: the shortage of responsibly sourced, high-quality data available to train highly-sophisticated, spatially intelligent models.
"AI models can only be as good as the data they learn from," said Alex de Vigan, CEO at Nfinite.ai. "Getty Images is an iconic brand with one of the richest visual libraries in the world. With our platform, we're turning that wealth of flat pixels into data that can supercharge AI, enabling models to understand depth, scale, and context, which are the building blocks of real-world intelligence."
Driving Industry Standards for Visual AI
As foundation models grow in capability, and in the volume and diversity of data they require, structured visual datasets are becoming a critical component of the AI training pipeline. Via its work with Getty Images and other leading visual creators, Nfinite.ai aims to advance this transformation by creating high-quality, responsibly sourced, and copyright-respecting data that balances both scale with utility.
About Getty Images
Getty Images (NYSE: GETY) is a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace that offers a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer around the globe, no matter their size. Through its Getty Images, iStock and Unsplash brands, websites and APIs, Getty Images serves customers in almost every country in the world and is the first-place people turn to discover, purchase and share powerful visual content from the world's best photographers and videographers. Getty Images works with almost 600,000 content creators and almost 360 content partners to deliver this powerful and comprehensive content. Each year Getty Images covers more than 160,000 news, sport and entertainment events providing depth and breadth of coverage that is unmatched. Getty Images maintains one of the largest and best privately-owned photographic archives in the world with millions of images dating back to the beginning of photography.
Through its best-in-class creative library and Custom Content solutions, Getty Images helps customers elevate their creativity and entire end–to–end creative process to find the right visual for any need. With the adoption and distribution of generative AI technologies and tools trained on permissioned content that include indemnification and perpetual, worldwide usage rights, Getty Images and iStock customers can use text to image generation to ideate and create commercially safe compelling visuals, further expanding Getty Images capabilities to deliver exactly what customers are looking for.
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About Nfinite.ai
Nfinite.ai specializes in delivering scalable, structured visual datasets — including images, videos, and 3D environments — optimized for training advanced AI systems. The company's platform converts 2D visuals into physically-based 3D scenes enriched with semantic and spatial metadata, accelerating the development of AI models with real-world reasoning capabilities.
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