Emad Mostaque — Stable Diffusion, Stability AI, and What’s Next

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 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 and Lukas discuss what the future might hold in store: big models vs "optimal" models, better datasets, and more decentralization.-🎶 Special note: This week’s theme music was composed by Weights & Biases’ own Justin Tenuto with help from Harmonai’s Dance Diffusion.-Show notes (transcript and links): http://wandb.me/gd-emad-mostaque-⏳ Timestamps:00:00 Intro00:42 How AI fits into the safety/security industry09:33 Event matching and object detection14:47 Running models on the right hardware17:46 Scaling model evaluation23:58 Monitoring and evaluation challenges26:30 Identifying and sorting issues30:27 Bridging vision and language domains39:25 Challenges and promises of natural language technology41:35 Production environment43:15 Using synthetic data49:59 Working with startups53:55 Multi-task learning, meta-learning, and user experience56:44 Optimization and testing across multiple platforms59:36 Outro-Connect with Jehan and Motorola Solutions:📍 Jehan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jehanw/📍 Jehan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jehan/📍 Motorola Solutions on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MotoSolutions/📍 Careers at Motorola Solutions: https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/about/careers.html-💬 Host: Lukas Biewald📹 Producers: Riley Fields, Angelica Pan, Lavanya Shukla, Anish Shah-Subscribe and listen to our podcast today!👉 Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcasts​​👉 Google Podcasts: http://wandb.me/google-podcasts​👉 Spotify: http://wandb.me/spotify​