Midjourney

includes Midjourney Editor

5 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jun 20, 2023 by George Hotz · said 54 times in 21 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Alessio Fanelli (10), Shawn Wang (7), Varun Mohan (3), Vivek Ravisankar (2), Suhail Doshi (2), Mikey Shulman (2), Jared Palmer (2), Gorkem Yurtseven (2)

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Jun 20, 2023 positive
Opinion
Hotz: Google TPUs are the only successful non-Nvidia training chips
“The only company, there's one other company aside from Nvidia who's succeeded at all at making training chips... Mid journey is trained on TPU, right? Like a lot of startups do actually train on TPUs, and they're the only other successful training chip aside f…”
George Hotz Jun 20, 2023 ▶ 4:33 Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
Jan 2, 2024
Insight
Suhail Doshi: AI builders should benchmark against market leaders, not outdated baselines
“I think it's incumbent on us to try to compare ourselves to the thing that's best, even if we lose. Even if we're not the best. Right. And you know, at some point, if we are able to surpass my journey, then we, you know, we only have ourselves to compare ourse…”
Suhail Doshi Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 28:41 The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
Jan 2, 2024 positive
Opinion
Suhail Doshi: Midjourney is currently the best image generation model
“We, you know, we have, everyone has to acknowledge that Midjourney is very good. You know, they're, they are the best at this thing. We would, I would happily, I'm happy to admit that.”
Suhail Doshi Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 28:19 The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
Feb 28, 2024 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Firshman: Early 2021 Discord AI bots originated Midjourney's collaborative interface
“It was the start of, it was the start of mid-journey, and, you know, it's where that kind of user interface came from. Like, what's beautiful about the user interface is, like, You could see what other people are doing, and that you could riff off other people…”
Ben Firshman Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 31:20 A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
Aug 3, 2026 neutral
Assertion Open · timeframe Aug 2029
Midjourney's David Holtz explored text diffusion to storyboard entire movies
“David Holtz from Midjourney was investing in text diffusion. I don't think anything came out of it, but like the idea was that you can storyboard a long movie and then you can generate the scenes with video, normal video gen.”
Shawn Wang Aug 3, 2026 ▶ 1:27:18 Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
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