Yoland Yan
@yoland_yan • 3,039 subscribers
CEO/Cofounder at @ComfyUI. we are hiring!
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We just raised $30M at a $500M valuation, after never spending a dollar on marketing. 4 million people decided ComfyUI was the platform they wanted to build on, and they shaped it into something we never could have shipped alone. This funding will accelerate our mission to build an open infrastructure, the kind that lasts, the kind that empowers rather than locks in. The core stays open, local stays first, and every part of this round goes toward building for the people who create things for a living. The next chapter of creative AI is going to be built by them, not handed to them. Round led by Craft Ventures, with Pace Capital, Chemistry and Tru Arrow joining. Total funding now $47M.
Yoland Yan81,155 views • 5 months ago
ComfyUI is now the first and only commercial license distributor for MiniMax (official)'s generative media models. MiniMax open weights have been downloaded through Comfy close to 20 million times. Not one of those downloads paid the lab a cent. That is the open-weight problem. Training frontier models is expensive. Adoption is not revenue. If open models are going to keep pace with the biggest closed labs, the labs need a way to get paid. So we built the bridge. Enterprises, studios, and agencies license through us. The labs get incentive to keep researching. Independent creators keep building exactly as they do now, funded by the organizations with budgets. A license only gets you the model. Our Forward Deployed Creatives embed with your team, train LoRAs on your style, build production workflows in your environment, and leave your people able to run and extend all of it. What they build is yours to keep. MiniMax is where we start, not where we stop. My assertion is that open-weight labs that survive the next two years will not be the ones with the best benchmarks. They will be the ones that solve distribution to paying customers first. Try for Free | Request a License today ⬇️
Yoland Yan14,982 views • 1 month ago
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