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We don't run ads and we don't sell your data. We make money by selling cosmetic upgrades. That's it.
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Stable Diffusion was downloaded 10 million times in two weeks. Ten million. It powered thousands of apps. And we captured almost none of that value. Turns out giving away your core product makes monetization tricky.
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We had 200 million monthly active users and Twitter still could not figure out how to make money from it. That is the saddest sentence in startup history.
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We do not want to be the company that monetizes knowledge. We want to be the institution that preserves it.