Midjourney, the AI image-generating firm that’s reportedly raking in over $200 million in income with no single dime of VC funding, is formally moving into {hardware}.
The firm made the announcement in on a submit on X on Wednesday. Midjourney’s new {hardware} group might be based mostly in San Francisco, it revealed.
Exactly what kind of {hardware} may two-year-old Midjourney, which has a group of underneath 100 individuals, pursue? Well, there is perhaps a clue in Midjourney’s hiring of Ahmad Abbas in early February. For greater than 5 years, Abbas — an ex-Neuralink staffer — helped develop the Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s combined actuality headset, most not too long ago as {hardware} engineering supervisor.
Midjourney CEO David Holz isn’t any stranger to {hardware} himself. He co-founded Leap Motion, which constructed movement monitoring peripherals. (Abbas labored along with Holz, in truth.)
Despite the lawsuits over its AI coaching strategy working their means by means of the courts, Midjourney has stated it’s continued to develop fashions for video and 3D era. The {hardware} may maybe be associated to these efforts by some means.
