ComfyUI стартапи 500 миллион долларга баҳоланди

Well, blow me down with a GPU - ComfyUI, the scrappy open-source node-based UI that somehow became the de facto interface for Stable Diffusion tinkerers and NSFW art factories alike, has landed $30 million and a $500 million valuation, according to Zamin.uz. At that price the investors are basically betting that the churn of individual creators dicking around with img2img animation sticks like every VHS tape you owned was a sustainable business model sweet lord pass the scalding tea.

The 'open-source tools' tag is doing heroic work, considering that the whole ecosystem around ComfyUI is a community-powered ship of Theseus where half the critical plugins vanish when a Discord lawyer gets grumpy. The startup hasn't quite revealed how it plans to turn latency and user patience into real recurring revenue, but hey at $500 million who cares about liquidity ask the pile of dead Web3 bridges.

Meanwhile in the real world, venture capital continues to shower six- and now seven-figure cheques on 'creator tools' that amount to tricked-out drag-and-drop dreamrooms for hyperspecific GenAI hobbyists. This is the economic miracle of making horse-drawn carriage accessories more artisanal right as the combustion engine goes into mass production. Spiffing work all round.