[aenvoker]

Not on the VC path. Not even on the max-profit path. Just on the "Have fun doing cool research" path.

I was a mod on MJ for its first few years and got to know MJ's founder through discussions there. He already had "enough" money for himself from his prior sale of Leap Motion to do whatever he wanted. And, he decided what he wanted was to do cool research with fun people. So, he started MJ. Now he has far more money than before and what he wants to do with it is to have more fun doing more cool research.

[user34283]

Great for him, but when you mention research and fun, I have to say I'm not aware MJ published any research whatsoever.

And on the topic of fun, while it's certainly highly subjective, I remember that the moderation with the MJ tool was at one point so strict that you could not generate an image containing a "treasure chest" since they censored the word "chest".

I'm happy that state of the art models are now developed by actors who publish comprehensive technical reports and open-weights.