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Seems to me like you're not watching a growing trend.
I'm deeply embedded in this community and comfy is the biggest thing in it.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
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Everyone is tired of paying for generations they don't use. Everyone wants local.
Local isn't some perfect little fisher price UI that some product manager approved. Local can be mixed and matched and pushed to the limits.
Topaz Labs' run rate is more than Runway and Pika, so don't write off local tools.
Internet creators are not "everyone". 99% of people aren't going to waste their time setting up ComfyUI instances and screwing with github nodes.
As I said, which you haven't disputed, Midjourney's revenue is orders of magnitudes more than any of these tools.
You don't know.
Midjourney might have tons of revenue for being the first mover, but they're busy building VR headsets and generative world models for their metaverse thing.
Meanwhile everyone who is using these models for work - ie, making money with these tools - is clamoring for local execution and deep controllability. Midjourney won't give them that.
The top AI studios are all building on Comfy.
Don't write off Topaz, either. It's the last stage in the pipeline for everyone's workflow.
Stable Diffusion came before Midjourney. What first mover advantage?
Flux has been around almost a year, by your reasoning everyone should have switched. They didn't. Everyone who used Midjourney a year ago is still using it.
The Midjourney sub on reddit has 1.6M subs. The Stable Diffusion sub has 600k.
I don't care what AI studios you know want to use. They use Premier Pro. Just like every film school in America does. Despite plenty of open source alternatives.
90% of people don't give a shit about running locally as long as it's high quality, easy to use and not expensive. And that's exactly why Midjourney is dominating.
Oh, and Runway is projecting to hit $150M in ARR this year.
You've got your facts wrong.
> Flux has been around almost a year
It's been around half that time.
And you're also underestimating how many billions of images have been generated with Flux. The marginal cost and value of these models will trend towards zero.
> The Midjourney sub on reddit has 1.6M subs. The Stable Diffusion sub has 600k.
So you're saying that they're within the same order of magnitude?
> I don't care what AI studios you know want to use. They use Premier Pro. Just like every film school in America does. Despite plenty of open source alternatives.
Premiere is local software. There's also Final Cut and lots of other alternatives. They're not using CapCut to edit their films.
We're also super early in this game. You're mentioning 20+ year old mature software.
> 90% of people don't give a shit about running locally as long as it's high quality, easy to use and not expensive.
They absolutely do care.
Right now 9 out of 10 generations are garbage, and that's being generous.
> Oh, and Runway is projecting to hit $150M in ARR this year.
That's a really ambitious target they set for themselves, and I think they're getting ahead of things. The field is full of much better competition now.
They also failed to raise their ambitious last round. They've raised too much and have too high a valuation, meanwhile smaller companies have caught up.
Figma destroyed Photoshop & Sketch.
Whatever, you have your opinion, none of the facts today support it, maybe you'll be right in the future (you won't be).