Emad Mostaque is CEO and co-founder of Stability AI, a startup and network of decentralized developer communities building open AI tools. Stability AI is the company behind Stable Diffusion, the well-known, open-source, text-to-image generation model.

Emad Mostaque shares the story and mission behind Stability AI (unlocking humanity's potential with open AI technology), and explains how Stability's role as a community catalyst and compute provider might evolve as the company grows. Then, Emad Mostaque and Lukas Biewald discuss what the future might hold in store: big models vs "optimal" models, better datasets, and more decentralization.

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🎶 Special note: This week’s theme music was composed by Weights & Biases’ own Justin Tenuto with help from Harmonai’s Dance Diffusion. Learn more:
🎵 Making an ML Theme Song for Our ML Podcast: https://wandb.ai/wandb/harmonai-audio...
🎵 A Gentle Introduction to Dance Diffusion: https://wandb.ai/wandb_gen/audio/repo...

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Show notes (transcript and links): http://wandb.me/gd-emad-mostaque

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⏳ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:45 The story and goals behind Stability AI
10:27 What it's like to get funding from Stability AI
13:44 Stability AI's short- and long-term business models
20:51 How Stability AI thinks about research and product
24:30 Moving from larger models to better datasets
33:32 Emad's thoughts on time series and Transformers
38:13 Why Stability AI is focusing on media applications first
40:56 The ethics and regulation of open source, large models
50:05 Community structures and governance
56:25 Using AI to improve and democratize education
1:03:24 Emad's thoughts on autism and machine learning
1:07:18 The importance of data and latency
1:10:03 Outro

Connect with Emad Mostaque and Stability AI:
📍 Emad Mostaque on LinkedIn:   / emostaque  
📍 Emad Mostaque on Twitter:   / emostaque  
📍 Stability AI on Twitter:   / stabilityai  

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💬 Host: Lukas Biewald
📹 Producers: Riley Fields, Angelica Pan, Lavanya Shukla, Anish Shah

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