Wow, the AI field has barely boomed for like 1 year, and we are already all-in on credentialism?
Stable Diffusion has had a very large impact on the entire arts industry, far more people have used SD than have Claude or pi. If another open source startup can reach that level of industry shaking fame and intense user interest, they could have easily be valued at 1B.
If SDXL works out, that'll be another large leap forward. Midjourney's models are stronger, but they can't compete against a legion of 1000 fine-tunes for every purpose.
Stable Diffusion has had a very large impact on the entire arts industry, far more people have used SD than have Claude or pi. If another open source startup can reach that level of industry shaking fame and intense user interest, they could have easily be valued at 1B.
If SDXL works out, that'll be another large leap forward. Midjourney's models are stronger, but they can't compete against a legion of 1000 fine-tunes for every purpose.