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It is royalty free and backed by a number of industry giants (Amazon, AMD, Apple, Arm, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, etc.), who together formed the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). It is intended to be paired with the Opus audio codec in a WebM container for HTML5 web video. It is designed as a successor to VP9, that competes directly with the proprietary (and costly) HEVC/H.265 codec. AV1 is the latest and greatest of the open video formats.