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Casado: Leading AI consumer products launch web-first before releasing APIs
“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 then maybe an API, which you…”
Midjourney's public Discord server has around 20 million users
“Yeah, I think their public server is, yeah, it's about that size. It's pretty large.”
Midjourney generates nearly 1% of all invite traffic across Discord
“Like Midjourney itself is driving, you know, close to a percent of all kind of Discord invite traffic, which is very cool.”
Vasquez: Swedish dropout Gabriel Petersson worked at Midjourney and OpenAI before founding
“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.”
Moore: Midjourney and Character.ai launched before ChatGPT in 2022
“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 fall of twenty-twenty…”
Andreessen: Around 100 million people actively use generative AI applications
“And then there's a bottoms up phenomenon, which is it's already long, like people are already experiencing it, right? 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. And s…”