Emad Mostaque Personally Funded Early Open-Source AI and Midjourney Grants
Emad Mostaque · No Priors Ep. 3 | With Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque · May 3, 2023 · at 4:15
Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque explains his initial involvement in funding open-source generative AI communities prior to formalizing Stability AI.
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“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 kind of kicking this off.”
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