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Emad Mostaque

Stability AI
London, United Kingdom
Emad Mostaque founded Stability AI in 2021, releasing Stable Diffusion as an open-source image generation model that democratized AI art and sparked an entire industry of derivative tools and communities. A former hedge fund manager, he made a bold open-source bet that made Stability AI one of the most-discussed AI companies in the world. He stepped down as CEO in 2024 amid board disagreements and has since advocated for decentralized AI governance.
AI / Image Generation

About Stability AI

Stability AI develops and releases open-source AI models for image, audio, video, 3D, and language generation, including Stable Diffusion, StableLM, and Stable Audio.

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