Jordi Hays

Reconstructing across 21 servers with two petaflops of compute power.

and up to 806 terabytes of raw data.

The slices form a 3D map with the ability to resolve internal tissue details as small as half a millimeter.

Wow.

Less than a dozen of these systems operating at full speed can do a full body scan of every, their goal is a fleet of 50,000 of these scanners capable of a billion scans a month.

That's basically everyone on earth.

You're saying potentially we could pivot this into more chip fabrication capacity.

Yeah, sorry.

We can make way more money just making more chips.

Well, let's go through some more of the reactions.

Mid-journey launching an ultrasound scanner is such a clear example of freedom enjoyed by bootstrap companies that VC-backed companies would never have.

Only time will tell if it's the right bet, but such bold bets require ownership and a kind of devil-may-care attitude.

That's somewhat true, but the counter to all that is like the Elon Musk projects and a variety of founders.

And specs.

and specs, but also, you know, like Sam Allman has done this too, where it's like, okay, there's a new idea, get a new team, fund it, and it's on the side.

Like there are a variety of entrepreneurs that are playing the VC game, marshalling capital, and then have the permission to work on crazy stuff, like a mass driver on the moon, et cetera.

But in general, I agree with this point that a lot of founders get locked in a VC space

loop of you got to raise money every 18 months, you got to hit the core KPI, you don't have the time or cash flow because you're win, win, win, fight, fight, fight.

And it's very, very interesting and such a narrative violation that Midjourney has become such a machine financially in, you know, people would say it's a commodity market.

People would say it's a highly competitive market.