I only see something like SD to be attractive for personal uses, not corporate. That is why I mentioned a person, not a company, as a customer.

If your product is tested and guaranteed to certain standards, like MySQL and RedHat, then that is something a company may pay for. But a user doesn't really have that high standard so they can be satisfied with just the off brand, derived stuff floating around.

There was that post maybe two weeks ago about the blender artist who was afraid they were out of a job because apparently some ai can do his sort of work based on prompts. Stable diffusion most definitely has use in creative industries, at the very least, being able to render a representative first draft that actual creative humans can work off of.

Not MariaDB

> Was it profitable for Cygnus?

We were a bootstrap so were immediately profitable.