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Brilliant or diabolical: who is David Holz, founder of Midjourney, this AI that generates photos?

4/9/2023, 2:16:25 PM


PORTRAIT – The CEO of the research laboratory embodies a revival in the new technologies sector. A brilliant mind, fond of physics and philosophy, and who, as of last year, responded in advance to the criticisms that have been made to him for a few weeks.

To find out who the founder of Midjourney was, we couldn't ask ChatGPT: its database doesn't have enough recent information to answer this question.

So, like a prehistoric man, we Googled.

On his LinkedIn page, we learn that David Holz studied applied mathematics at the University of North Carolina;

that he spent a year at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology developing algorithms to map rat brain cells;

that he then worked at NASA's engineering department on LiDAR (the equivalent of radar but which uses pulses of infrared light instead of radio waves) to carry out atmospheric studies of Mars and Earth ;

that he founded a company called Leap Motion, specializing in hand tracking technology in order to develop digital interfaces… All that before founding Midjourney, which has been making its mark for a few months…

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