Midjourney
VS
OpenAI

AI infra comparison — funding, valuation, and investors, sourced from Value Add Pulse coverage.

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Midjourney

Midjourney is a self-funded AI research lab known for its text-to-image (and now video) generation platform accessed via Discord and the web.

2 Pulse stories
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OpenAI

OpenAI is the maker of ChatGPT and the GPT model family, serving roughly 900M weekly active users with 50M+ paid subscribers — it filed its S-1 on June 8, 2026 ahead of a planned IPO.

227 Pulse stories
Total Raised
$180B
MidjourneyOpenAI
Last Valuation
$852B
MidjourneyOpenAI
AI infra
Sector
AI infra
2021
Founded
2015
San Francisco, CA
HQ
San Francisco, California, USA
Private
Status
Private
Midjourney investors
No investors on record.
OpenAI investors
MicrosoftSoftBankNvidiaAmazonThrive CapitalSequoia CapitalKhosla Ventures

Data from Value Add Pulse coverage and company research — see the full threads for Midjourney and OpenAI.