Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Midjourney: bootstrap AI, $200M


Apparently, good and profitable AI models and companies could me made without billions of dollars, like in case of OpenAI


Midjourney - Wikipedia

Midjourney is a generative artificial intelligence program and service created and hosted by the San Francisco-based independent research lab Midjourney, Inc. Midjourney generates images from natural language descriptions, called prompts, similar to OpenAI's DALL-E and Stability AI's Stable Diffusion.


The Weird Rise Of Anti-Startups - YouTube


Vipul Vaibhaw on X: "Midjourney 's exceptional case study
- - Completely bootstrapped to ~$200 million revenue.
 - First researcher had no experience, she was an independent researcher. Now works at Stability AI.
- David Holz, founder was also CTO/founder of leap motion. He was very much versed"
/ X


Midjourney’s $200M without external investors | LinkedIn


Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440 - YouTube

Pieter Levels (aka levelsio on X) is a self-taught developer and entrepreneur who has designed, programmed, launched over 40 startups, many of which are highly successful.


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