Midjourney CEO David Holz: why not put a billion dollars into simulators instead of data collection
DavidSHolz · x · 2026-11-12
Midjourney CEO David Holz poses a contrarian question: everyone debates spending billions on data collection, but no one asks "what if we put a billion dollars into simulators instead" — hinting simulation may be the underinvested path to training data.
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