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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Midjourney comes up
How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- ▶ 4:32 Matt Bornstein You know, the cursor team kind of stood out because not only did they sort of align with the things that we thought about the world, um, more importantly, smarter people than us, you know, and, you know, engineers working at, at the time,…
The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 29:51 Gabriel Vasquez So this was a high school dropout from Sweden, came to the U.S. with no education, got a job on MidJourney, then became one of the youngest researchers at OpenAI, and now he started a company.
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 43:53 Balaji Srinivasan Um, just like Midjourney, you know, took, uh, took Dali's job, took Stable Diffusion's job. 2 times in the scene
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 18:07 Olivia Moore Um, I mean, obviously, the first big generative AI product was actually Mid Journey, which came out before ChatGPT. 2 times in the scene
Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- ▶ 4:06 Anish Acharya So it felt like 18 months ago we were talking about mid-journey, and most of the multimodal models were defined by aesthetics and realism. 2 times in the scene
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 55:21 Martin Casado Like, you know, maybe, you know, a little bit, maybe not, like, you know, it changes all the time, but you actually see clear leaders if they break out early just because people learn, like, the house online, like, people learn majoring,…
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 10:42 Anish Acharya You know, mid journey just has a different aesthetic than ideogram.
- ▶ 13:04 Chris Dixon Um, and so the idea being, you know, your cursor, and then suddenly all of the, you know, it becomes popular, um, or, you know, mid journey, let's say, right? 2 times in the scene
Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- ▶ 29:42 Martin Casado I mean, you know, everybody knows kind of like when we always talk about the opening eyes and the anthropics, but do you talk like the 11 labs, for example, or mid journey?
The Top 100 Most Used AI Apps in 2025
- ▶ 14:10 Olivia Moore We've got Midjourney, PhotoRoom, Leonardo Cutout Pro,
- ▶ 16:03 Olivia Moore You could even argue the same is true for a ChatGPT or Midjourney.
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 52:17 Martin Casado And then of course the next version of like mini journey, whatever comes out and it does a better job of it.
The State of AI: Growth, Fragmentation, and the Next Wave
- ▶ 4:20 Martin Casado Mid-Journey came out.
Why AI Characters & Virtual Influencers Are the Next Frontier in Video ft Hedra’s Michael Lingelbach
- ▶ 18:05 Michael Lingelbach Like there's still a role for like mid journey, for example, because it has that cinematic style that people really like that GPT-IVO doesn't quite get, even though it has amazing prompt adherence.
- ▶ 43:07 Michael Lingelbach And I think a lot of what we're thinking about is how can you like co-create with AI that can understand your preferences, like in a similar way that like, you know, mid journey has become very aligned with like user aesthetic preferences.
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 20:37 Martin Casado Like, is Mid Journey, is that, uh, an infra company?
What You Missed in AI This Week (Google, Apple, ChatGPT)
- ▶ 22:55 Justine Moore I remember our friends in, at ad agencies or entertainment companies would tell us that they were using Midjourney to mock things up, or even using the images in their final work products.
The State of Consumer Tech in the Age of AI
- ▶ 1:03 Justine Moore And we've also seen a bunch of other ones in, in various other, like, modalities of AI, um, in, like, image and video and, and audio companies like Midjourney and, and 11 Labs and Blackforce Labs, um, now things like Kling and Veo.
Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
- ▶ 51:25 Anjney Midha There's people who couldn't create images before who use tools like Midjourney and so on for the first time.
The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained
- ▶ 3:13 Olivia Moore Actually, Midjourney and Character AI both came out before ChatGBT, which I think a lot of people don't know, but there was maybe these early niche communities of early adopters that were using both of those products in the summer and the…
- ▶ 27:12 Anish Acharya You know, you usually generate an image in Midjourney or Flux, and then you take that image and, 2 times in the scene
Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
- ▶ 9:51 Martin Casado I mean, anecdotally, other than like, say, maybe like mid-journey and Discord, all of these are web technologies, like ChatGPT, Ideogram, like all of them, Claude, I mean, it seems like that the first place that they land is a website, and…
How GenAI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales
- ▶ 1:33 Seema Amble So whether using Jasper, Midjourney, any of these platforms, um, and then
How Discord Became a Developer Platform
- ▶ 16:10 Anjani Mitra People may be familiar with Midjourney. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:38 Anjani Mitra And, and the end result, I think, is what you're, you're describing is that a product, um, or an app, whether it's a game, like the one you're building, or a non-game like Midjourney, can literally go from zero to, I think Midjourney is… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:50 Anjani Mitra And one of the things he crystallized for me, which, you know, I, I think kind of maps the experience we had in the early days of, of Midjourney, you know, launching on the platform, was this idea that, uh, game development and sort of AI… 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 31:21 Marc Andreessen And so the, the, the, that would be literally, you know, that'd be like mid journey, right? 2 times in the scene
The Future of Prosumer: The Rise of “AI Native” Workflows
- ▶ 8:49 Olivia Moore We've probably all taken a prompt from somewhere and put it into mid-journey and maybe tweaked it a little bit.
The Top 100 GenAI Consumer Apps
- ▶ 0:33 Olivia Moore Essentially, the question we were trying to answer was like, yes, there are these AI names that everyone knows and a lot of people use, like ChatGPT and Midjourney, but beyond that, like, what are the other products that normal people…
- ▶ 10:38 Olivia Moore And many of those companies that get really big on Discord, like Midjourney, like Pika, like Suno, will then go and launch an independent web app that does really well. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:28 Steph Smith But then, on the other hand, there are companies like Midjourney that for the last 18 months have held strong.
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 3:29 Ben Horowitz Like if you ask mid journey and ideogram the same question, they react very differently, you know, depending on the use cases that they're tuned for.
Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
- ▶ 0:32 Anjney Midha Just think, ChatGPT or Midjourney.
Big Ideas 2024: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX with Alex Immerman
- ▶ 2:05 Alex Immerman The most popular consumer AI companies thus far have been the producers of their own models, such as ChatGPT, Character, Bard, and Midjourney. 2 times in the scene
2024 Big Ideas: Anime Games Go Mainstream with Robin Guo
2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
- ▶ 4:03 Jonathan Lai And so some of the products that they named include ChatGPT, Midjourney, 11 Labs, KDEM, Adobe Firefly, GitHub Copilot, et cetera.
- ▶ 12:26 Jonathan Lai And so I think almost all of them are using ChatGPT, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, um, a bunch of these, uh, software tools earlier.
- ▶ 18:03 Jonathan Lai Um, my guess is that, um, companies like mid journey or care, like, like character AI have been able to address this with a subscription model.
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 35:58 Marc Andreessen Yeah, you see there's a bunch of memes now, um, you know, just with, like, uh, Dali and Midjourney for image generation, you know, the, the ability to use, like, basically art, to the art is, like, expressive humor, um, so the, the meme in…
- ▶ 1:17:55 Marc Andreessen The output of a GPT-IV query or the output of a midger and image generator is often actually better than what most people can do.
Evolve or Die: The Future of the Creative Process, Artist Authenticity, and the Value of the Music
- ▶ 1:04:54 Piff Marti One, it saves me a lot of money as a creative entrepreneur where I can go into a mid journey and then type in a dope prompt and get some artwork so I can use for my album cover.
AI Will Save The World with Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado
- ▶ 1:21 Marc Andreessen It's like in the form of, like, GPT and Midjourney and all these other new kind of amazing AI apps that are kind of running wild online.
- ▶ 22:29 Marc Andreessen Um, and I think part of that is just, like, because we live in a connected world now, um, and the fact that anybody on the planet could just, like, click in and start to use ChatGPT or MidJourney or Dolly or, you know, Bing or any of these…
Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
- ▶ 0:25 Steph Smith Sometimes so quickly that we forget that tools like Midjourney or Stable Diffusion
- ▶ 16:51 Steph Smith Like I, I did a presentation recently and I use mid journey for all of my images within that presentation.
Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela
- ▶ 25:15 Steph Smith From my understanding, your company is not taking the, like, full generative AI approach, right, where you just, like, go into something like mid-journey and spin up a net new image.
- ▶ 25:29 Isaac Bratzel I mean, I think right now, I think that there's understandably a lot of excitement about mid-journey and really tools that I call pixel pushing at the end of the day.
Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
- ▶ 2:26 Guy Parsons Mid journey kind of predated those by some small margin and seems way ahead of anything people have kind of tried using before.
- ▶ 4:08 Steph Smith And so before we get into maybe the tips and tricks that you've learned, I just want to give the audience a broad sense of how much time you've spent within the bowels of mid-journey, DALI, stable diffusion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:08 Guy Parsons But then, of course, you have now tools like Midjourney, who've been, like, iterating on their text-to-image model, like, a lot more aggressively than OpenAI, who
- ▶ 18:14 Steph Smith So if we talk about just stable diffusion, mid-journey, and DALI, I feel like there are three that a lot of people are familiar with. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:09 Steph Smith Um, and so it's like, how is this stuff used in the wider world, whether it's, you know, on an e-commerce website, whether it's actually, you know, one day integrating with three D printing and like the stuff that you generate in mid…
- ▶ 33:40 Guy Parsons Again, if you look at the most recent model of mid journey, like version four, if you like stuff that would not have been even possible six months ago, you can literally do the thing where you type in, I can't remember your example, but…
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- ▶ 46:40 Jack Soslow In the same way that maybe, like, you wanted to make an image in the past of, I don't know, or a meme, and it wasn't really possible until you saw Midjourney or Dali.
a16z Podcast: Best Clips of 2022
- ▶ 20:45 Karen X. Cheng I almost liken these image synthesizers like Dali or Mid Journey to like a Peter Pan, but instead of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, it,
Neal Stephenson on the Future of the Metaverse
- ▶ 32:30 Neal Stephenson And we're seeing this a lot with DALI and, um, Mid Journey and, uh, other, uh, AI-based image programs where, um, uh, you know, those, those things produce some images that are probably what the designers were envisioning or imagining, but…
- ▶ 34:32 Neal Stephenson It went deep down the rabbit hole of mid-journey and all that last month, and, and very quickly when you're thinking about applying those kinds of systems to build, um, experiences that might make money, you're up against an ethical…
- ▶ 40:50 Steph Smith There's Midjourney, as you said.
AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
- ▶ 0:16 Steph Smith And you can only imagine with the rise of some of these AI tools like DALI, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, what she's been able to achieve.
- ▶ 15:54 Karen X. Cheng There's Dolly, there's mid journey, there's stable diffusion.
- ▶ 18:37 Steph Smith So you have Dolly, you have stable diffusion, you have mid journey. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:14 Karen X. Cheng I almost liken these image synthesizers like Dali or Mid Journey to like a Peter Pan, but instead of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, it,
- ▶ 47:25 Steph Smith Open AI, mid journey, etc.
- ▶ 52:09 Karen X. Cheng I saw that there was someone and a reporter who used a mid journey art for his article, I think about Alex Jones, and then he went viral. 2 times in the scene