Stone to Silicon

Artificial intelligence · 2022

Midjourney

An independent lab's image generator, run through Discord, defines AI art style.

David Holz's Midjourney opened its beta in July 2022 inside Discord. In August 2022 a Midjourney image won the Colorado State Fair digital art prize. It grew into one of the largest Discord servers in the world.

See it in the living treeWikipedia

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 1

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The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)

ML hardware FLOP/s per dollar Source: Epoch AI, ML hardware (CC BY 4.0)