Make creation the world's
favorite entertainment.

We're 1851 Labs — a small team in Toronto building GenTube, the world's fastest AI creation platform. Our mission: turn a billion consumers into creators.

Backed by top angels and consumer investors, with 100M+ images created and growing fast.

100M+ images created
10M+ monthly creations
~2s generation time

The opportunity

The internet made billions of people consumers. AI is about to flip that. The cost of creation has collapsed — but no one has built the platform that makes it the default behavior.

GenTube is a remix-first, social AI art platform. It's free. It generates in ~2 seconds. Users don't just create — they build on each other's work. We think that's how a billion people get into creation: by making it feel more like play than production.

We're moving fast and the problem is still wide open. The people who join now will shape what this becomes.

The founders

Mo Musbah — Co-founder & CEO Founding team at Maluuba, one of the first serious NLP companies. Acquired by Microsoft for $150M. His ML systems reached 100M+ users. Spent years in Microsoft Research. Left to build something from scratch again.
Josh Kuntz — Co-founder & CTO Founding engineer at Wish. Built the systems that scaled to 100M+ monthly users and $2B in GMV. Deep in infrastructure, execution, and moving fast without breaking things.

How we work

Build > debate
Ship, measure, repeat
Brutal honesty
Empathy for creators
High ownership, low process
Bias to action

If you want to help a billion people create instead of consume — we're hiring.

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