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NO PRIORS Opinion
OpenAI Is Incorrect That Image Generation Is Not Core to AGI
“I do believe that they are incorrect around multimodality being, or images being a core component of that.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 26:26 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Insight
Large Language Models Are Creative Fiction Engines Rather Than Factual Databases
“I do say these large models as well should be viewed as fiction, creative models, not fact models, because otherwise we've created the most efficient compression in the world. Does it make sense you can take terabytes of data and compress it down to a few giga…”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 36:14 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Governments Will Eventually Pour Hundreds of Billions Into AGI Model Scaling
“When governments decide, and I don't believe they've decided yet, that having an AGI is the number one thing, tens of billions, hundreds of billions will go into building bigger models.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 39:38 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Malicious Actors Already Possess Advanced AI Models and Thousands of A100 GPUs
“I think the bad guys, I'm going to put that in quotes have access to these models already and thousands and thousands of A-one hundreds.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 42:51 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Prediction Held up
ChatGPT-Level AI Models Will Run Locally on Smartphones by 2028
“You will see ChatGPT level models running on the edge on smartphones in five years, which will be crazy.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 44:38 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
20VC Assertion Supported
Emad Mostaque: Google DeepMind's annual salary budget is $1.2 billion
“DeepMind's salary budget is 1.2 billion a year.”
Emad Mostaque May 24, 2024 ▶ 10:44 Sam Altman, Arthur Mensch and more discuss:Which Startups Are Threatened vs Enabled by OpenAI?|E1156 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Insight
Emad Mostaque: There is no such thing as an unbiased AI model
“There is no such thing as an unbiased model.”
Emad Mostaque Nov 24, 2023 ▶ 3:20 The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Emad Mostaque: Every Nation Will Need Sovereign Datasets and Open Models
“As part of that, every nation will need their own data sets, which again, have from broadcaster data. They will need their own open models that can stimulate innovation internally as well.”
Emad Mostaque Sep 15, 2023 ▶ 15:35 20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Emad Mostaque: Google Spends $20 Billion per Year on AI
“Google spend twenty billion dollars a year on AI.”
Emad Mostaque Sep 15, 2023 ▶ 28:03 20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Emad Mostaque: DeepMind's Annual Salary Budget Is $1.2 Billion
“DeepMind's salary budget is 1.2 billion a year.”
Emad Mostaque Sep 15, 2023 ▶ 28:06 20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostak: DeepMind's annual salary budget is $1.2 billion
“DeepMind's salary budget is 1.2 billion a year.”
Emad Mostaque Jun 2, 2023 ▶ 4:25 20VC: Who Wins the AI Race; Startups or Incumbents & Does Having Proprietary Data Really Matter For Startups Today?
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostaque: Google's Med-PaLM 2 AI model exceeds doctor performance levels
“Now we have MedPOM-II that exceeds doctor levels. So that was a Google announcement yesterday.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 5:08 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mostaque: AI will redefine doctors' roles by providing continuous personal health data
“I think that you can change the nature of a doctor because a lot of this stuff is kind of very basic. I think, you know, you had Babylon Health and others trying that chatbot. It wasn't ready. Now you've got this. Everyone should have their own AIs looking out…”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 8:27 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Partly held up
Stability AI to build language models in the open starting next week
“From next week, we're going to build our language models in the open and share what works and what doesn't work.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 13:25 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Disclosure
Stability AI is collaborating with governments on national AI data frameworks
“Well, this is what we're doing right now. We're working with our multinational partners, lots more to be announced soon, and multiple governments for a framework for what good data looks like to feed these models, to stimulate innovation and localization.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 18:38 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Disclosure
Mostaque: Stability AI partnered with Amazon Bedrock for enterprise distribution
“If you want to have distribution, what do we do? We went to Amazon and said Bedrock, because then it gives us a 100,000 SageMaker SMEs, and we just have to give them the models that they can then take to the private data, and we get a share of all of that.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 20:20 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Insight
Emad Mostaque: There is no such thing as an unbiased AI model
“There is no such thing as an unbiased model.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 28:25 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Disclosure
Mostaque: Enterprises are offering Stability AI tens of millions per model
“People are offering us tens of millions per model”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 36:11 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Held up
Mostaque: Google will spend $20 billion annually on AI
“Google will spend twenty billion dollars a year on AI.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 46:20 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostaque: DeepMind spends $1.2 billion annually on salaries
“DeepMind's salary budget is 1.2 billion a year.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 46:25 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Contradicted
Mostaque: Stability AI currently has 7,000 NVIDIA A100 GPUs
“You need these chips lined up with interconnect, and we've got 7000 A-one hundreds now.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 48:04 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Opinion
Mostaque: UK has the best AI regulations and talent policies outside Japan
“It's had the best apart from maybe Japan, yes.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 50:13 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostaque: Character.AI Sees Two Hours of Engagement Per Session
“Character AI has something like two hours a day of engagement per session”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 59:08 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Opinion
Mostaque: Apple's Siri voice assistant is crap
“And so they could surprise us all, but let's face it, Siri's crap, you know?”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 1:03:55 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Opinion
Mostaque: AI is already good enough for broad human trust
“Humans will trust it anyway. They trust Google Maps. They trust all these things. And so it's good enough for humans to trust right now.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 1:09:03 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
NO PRIORS Disclosure
Stability AI Is Deploying Four Million Tablets to Children Across Malawi
“So right now we're deploying four million tablets to every child in Malawi.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 18:42 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Movie Studios Are Already Saving Millions by Implementing Stable Diffusion Locally
“We are working with multiple movie studios at the moment who are saving millions of dollars, just implementing stable diffusion by itself, let alone these other technologies.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 25:23 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Prediction Held up
Generative Image Models Will Soon Achieve 25 Frames Per Second
“With the additional breakthroughs that are coming through, it'll be 25 frame images a second. That's a hundred times speed up over a hundred times just from getting it out there and people interested in doing that.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 30:08 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Disclosure
Stability AI Is Exclusively Training Video Models on the Eros Bollywood Catalog
“So like now we're training on hundreds and soon thousands of Bollywood movies to create Bollywood video models with our partnership with Eros you know, and that is exclusively licensed.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 31:25 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Opinion
Multi-Model Interactions Will Dominate the Future of AI Over Zero-Shot Models
“And again, I think this is the future, not just zero shot, multiple models interacting with each other is the way full stop.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 35:08 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Emad Mostaque: Google spends $20 billion annually on artificial intelligence
“Google spend twenty billion dollars a year on AI.”
Emad Mostaque May 24, 2024 ▶ 10:41 Sam Altman, Arthur Mensch and more discuss:Which Startups Are Threatened vs Enabled by OpenAI?|E1156 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mostaque: Next-gen AI will feature persistent memory and autonomous agents
“The next step is one to one. It remembers what you're asking for, like a cookie or an embedding. And then it's you plus a thousand of these language models all going and doing your bidding, the agent based kind of thing.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 6:15 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mostaque: AI future will pair global models with on-device models
“So you'll have big global models, on-device models, And I think open works for that, because you don't need to have all the data open.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 10:16 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Insight
Mostaque: Core innovation is not a business without distribution and data moats
“If you have a business that's focused on innovation at the core, that's not actually a business. It becomes a business when that innovation becomes product, becomes distribution, when it has an advantage on data and other things. Those are real moats.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 20:45 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Insight
Mostaque: AI performance depends on data quality, not quantity
“It's not about more data, it's about better data.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 26:44 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostaque: OpenAI's DALL-E 2 bias filter randomly assigned gender and ethnicity
“So DALI-II, when OpenAI had that and they introduced a bias filter, any non-gendered word, they had a random gender and a random ethnicity. So you typed in sumo wrestler and you'd get Indian female sumo wrestler.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 28:27 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Open · timeframe May 2028
Mostaque: A new wave of AI-first publishers will combine AI and humans
“You will have AI first publishers. So if you remember kind of Vox and these things when they kind of kicked off, they wanted to be generated, they wanted to be a technology first. You're gonna have a new wave of AI first publishers that aren't just AI, but it'…”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 32:25 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mostaque: AI technology will settle in 2024 and become ubiquitous
“Next year it will settle, and then it'll go ubiquitous.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 39:34 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
NO PRIORS Disclosure
Emad Mostaque Personally Funded Early Open-Source AI and Midjourney Grants
“So I started supporting the whole space at Luther and beyond, giving jobs to the developers, compute for the model creators, funding the various notebooks from disco diffusion to these other things, you know, giving grants to people like mid journey that were …”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 4:15 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Assertion Contradicted
Stability AI Repositories Beat Ethereum and Bitcoin Combined in GitHub Stars
“You know, on GitHub stars, we've overtaken Ethereum and Bitcoin cumulatively. It took them 10 years. We got there in like three, four months.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 7:10 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Disclosure
Stability AI Secured a Seven Million Hour Grant on Summit Supercomputer
“So to give you an example, we just got a seven million hour grant on Summit, one of the fastest supercomputers in the US.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 9:43 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Assertion Supported
Distilled Stable Diffusion Models Can Run Locally on iPhones in Seconds
“Now, as of the release of Distilled Stable Diffusion, it will run in a couple of seconds on an iPhone, and we have neural engine access, because our view of the future is creating models that aren't necessarily bigger, but that are customizable and editable.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 12:37 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Computational Biology Will See Artificial Intelligence's Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs
“And then I think on a breakthrough side, computational biology will be the biggest one.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 14:36 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
20VC Assertion Supported
Mostaque: Stable Diffusion condenses 100,000 gigabytes into a 2GB file
“So we train the whole internet and like stable diffusion is a 100,000 gigabytes in a two gigabyte file.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 53:50 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
NO PRIORS Disclosure
Stability AI Plans to Release an Open Medical Foundation Model
“We will release an open MedPalm model. Well, med stable GPT.”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 14:53 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
NO PRIORS Disclosure
Stability AI Was Originally Conceived as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization
“And originally I thought you got communities, you gotta make them kind of coordinated. Could a DAO work or a DAO of DAOs? And that's how stability started. After about a week, I realized that was not gonna work and it was incredibly difficult. So then I figure…”
Emad Mostaque May 3, 2023 ▶ 4:44 No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque
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