[version_five]

Fundamentally it sounds like you built an ML model(s) and are trying to monetize it behind an API. How does that work medium-term? Are you expecting there won't be open source alternatives, is your value in hosting the model (and if so will you open source yours) or is there another angle. I've built ML models and looked into how to monetize them, and overall it seems like a tough play without the model being part of some bigger thing that has more of a moat. What are your thoughts?

[jrmylee]

Yeah it's a great q

The way we think about it is that we're building a product for organizations in scaling mode, and they have deep needs on the product-side. Flexibility on filtering, different client-libraries, a clean observability interface, etc...

It's possible that we open-source parts of our models, but fundamentally we think we can capture value by building a great all-around web product, and not just a set of eval models.

[notahacker]

I'd either want the deformity testing either integrated with the generation service (really deeply if it's a GAN!) or a post processing tool (a "look, dodgy hands" layer in Photoshop which could then allow you to fix those deformities) rather than a separate web service

If the quality of the model is difficult to replicate (which seems to be a big "if" at the pace of NN image processing improvements), I guess there might be licensing or plugin sale opportunities there