Recently, Magnific AI has once again surged into the limelight.

The reason is their release of an all-new feature: the ability to enlarge and enhance any image to 10,000 x 10,000 pixels.

The legendary 4K ultra-HD, which is 4096 pixels, pales in comparison to what Magnific AI can achieve. It can transform a blurry 600-pixel image into a crystal clear 10K resolution in just a few minutes.

It's not 4K, not even 8K, but 10K!

It takes a very blurred image and, after enhancement, magnifies it infinitely while maintaining extreme clarity in the details.

Alternatively, you can adjust the similarity parameters to create some interesting effects.

For example, enhancing the image of the original Lara Croft character.

I casually enhanced an image from my 'The Wandering Earth 3' project.

When you magnify the details, the results are astounding, akin to someone with nearsightedness wearing glasses for the first time in their life.

The launch of the new version of Magnific AI has even garnered cheers from Elon Musk.

Now, you can visit the Magnific AI website at https://magnific.ai/ to experience the thrill of a one-time enhancement up to 16 times, directly achieving a stunning 10,000 pixels.

But this service, as fantastic as it is, comes at a steep price. There are three tiers: starting at $39, then $99, and up to $299.

I subscribed to the $39 tier, which provides 2,500 points per month. For a small image, doubling its size costs about 5 points. I enlarged a 1680*720 image by 8 times, which consumed a total of 60 points.

Expensive as it is, it doesn't dampen the enthusiasm of the vast number of users willing to pay. GPUs are frequently overloaded, and countless users spontaneously post their own cases on platform X, often attracting hundreds of thousands of views.

Even more astonishing is the fact that Magnific AI is operated by just two people.

Last night, Javi Lopez, the founder of Magnific AI, posted a message:

You're not seeing things. This wildly popular product is run by just two people, a real bootstrap startup.

Javi Lopez and Emilio Nicolás single-handedly handle everything.

They even started with a profit.

Hard to believe, right? Nowadays, many startups have CEOs, CTOs, COOs, various chiefs, growth and marketing teams, expanding to dozens of members, yet their products don’t seem to surpass Magnific AI.

In the AI era, it seems everything has changed.

When MidJourney was at its peak, it had 11 people.

PIKA, at its height, had 4 people.

Magnific AI, at its zenith, just 2.

In the AI era, the real titans, bolstered by AI, can indeed rival an army, and it’s not just talk.

I've actually been following Javi Lopez since early last year. Back then, he was a prominent figure in the AI field, sharing his creations daily and always up to something.

Remember the AI version of 'Angry Birds' that was handcrafted using AI for Halloween? That was his creation.

He even created a comprehensive list of MidJourney prompt words, named 'bestaiprompts', priced at $99. It actually sold quite well on platform X, attracting a host of loyal followers.

He also previously ventured into entrepreneurship with Emilio Nicolás, his current partner at Magnific AI. Together, they created an international student community called Erasmusu, which was quite successful and was eventually acquired by Spotahome, allowing them to exit gracefully.

Javi Lopez doesn't come from a lavish background, nor does he boast a high-level formal education. On LinkedIn, his educational background is listed as self-taught.

Using AI redrawing as a cornerstone in the AI era, Magnific AI, with just two people, has emerged as the absolute leader in AI image enhancement.

It boasts the most expensive subscription in the AI product sphere, yet users readily pay the premium. For professions like designers and artists, enhanced images are a necessity. Compared to manual labor, paying a few hundred dollars a month is a bargain in terms of cost-effectiveness.

To compete with Magnific AI, the real-time AI drawing product Krea also launched an AI enhancement feature, but frankly, its performance was subpar. Artists and designers still prefer, and willingly pay for, Magnific AI's superior service.

This is a victory for the super-individual in the AI era.

The three essential elements of this era are essentially algorithms, computing power, and data.

Algorithms are mostly open to the public now, with almost no barriers to entry;

Computing power is a bottleneck for everyone, but with cloud computing so advanced and many global platforms available, renting some with money is too easy. Besides, you're not working on super-large models but rather on the application layer, so the need for computing power isn't as daunting.

Data might seem the most fortified, but imperfect laws make it vulnerable. Most AI companies simply use your data for training without a second thought.

In the current scenario, the gap between large corporations and startups is narrowing. What really counts is talent, creativity, and execution.

Javi Lopez and Emilio Nicolás possess flexibility, tenacity, and audacity that no large company can match. Their product is genuinely their brainchild.

Javi Lopez is a major figure in the field of AI applications, adept at various AI products, and Emilio Nicolás is exceptionally diligent and skilled.

With 34 experiences under their belt, they practically tower above the rest.

The success of companies like Magnific AI, PIKA, and MidJourney is no fluke.

They perfectly embody the 'small yet beautiful' aspect of Kazuo Inamori's 'Amoeba Management' model. In the AI era, even very small teams, or individuals, can handle sufficiently complex operations with AI, achieving autonomous innovation. There are almost no issues with decision-making efficiency or operational costs, and they can easily adapt to market changes.

Perhaps, in the future, we may witness the rise of more such 'super companies'.

Or maybe they won't even be 'companies' per se.

Just individuals like you and me.

One person could be equivalent to an army.

I look forward to that day.

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