David Holz, the diabolically brilliant founder of Midjourney
PORTRAIT – The CEO of the research laboratory embodies a renewal in the sector of…
David Holz, the diabolically brilliant founder of Midjourney
PORTRAIT – The CEO of the research laboratory embodies a renewal in the sector of new technologies. 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 was the founder of Midjourneywe could not ask ChatGPT: its database does not 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 in the engineering department of NASA on LiDAR (the equivalent of a radar but which uses infrared light pulses 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 this before founding Midjourney, which has been making its mark for a few months…
