Midjourney is not an open source model, it's a company built around open source models. And one of the main reasons they were successful was because they launch

Midjourney is not an open source model, it's a company built around open source models. And one of the main reasons they were successful was because they launched in Discord with the unique network effect of watching other people use the tool in real time. There are many open source and proprietary efforts that are front ends for open source AI models. It's probably the most popular category of startup by far in the last several months. If you have any particular ideas that are new and correct, would be interested to hear them.