The Future of Cryptocurrency and AI with Emad Mostaque

Emad Mostaque is the Founder and CEO at Stability AI.

In this episode of The Edge Podcast, we interview one of the most sought after AI experts in the world! Emad's team at Stability AI is building the world's leading open source generative AI company, which is known for their flagship Stable Diffusion, first released in August 2022. Stable Diffusion text-to-image model is widely used to generate detailed images based on text descriptions. Just one month after the release of StableDiffusion 2.0, four of the top 10 applications on Apple's App Store were powered by Stable Diffusion.

Emad has been invested and experimenting with crypto for many years but despite all of his media appearances, no one has asked him about the synergies between cryptocurrencies, Web3, and AI--until now! We ask every burning question, including how he believes AI can leverage crypto, how crypto can leverage AI, how tokenization can be used by AI startups, and what the future holds specifically for Stability AI and Web3.



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Topics Covered

00:00 - Intro
05:27 - Emad's background
07:55 - The impact of AI
13:00 - Founding Stability AI
15:52 - Exponential growth of StableDiffusion
17:25 - Why open source AI
20:44 - Synergies between Web3 x AI
24:52 - Tokenization for AI startups
28:15 - Big business investing in AI
31:28 - AirBnB for graphics cards model
33:35 - AI agents using smart contracts
35:27 - Education reimagined with AI
41:25 - AI using blockchain for data provenance, digital rights, governance
45:26 - Zero knowledge tech x ML
47:49 - Worldcoin
49:25 - Advice for crypto startups on AI strategies
50:19 - What's next for Stability AI x Web3
51:18 - Next year for Stability AI
52:14 - Closing

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Guest Links

Emad on Twitter
https://twitter.com/EMostaque

Learn about Stability AI
https://stability.ai/

Follow Stability AI on Twitter
https://twitter.com/stabilityai

Careers at Stability AI
https://stability.ai/careers

GitHub Stars Chart Referenced for StableDiffusion
https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1587038222722408450?s=20

Learn about Stability AI's Diffuse Together Contest with Peter Gabriel
https://twitter.com/itspeterga....briel/status/1663966

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All opinions expressed by hosts and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and not necessarily those of Fourth Revolution Capital. Podcast guests and 4RC may have positions in the assets or other matters discussed in this podcast. 4RC invested in the pre-seed round for Stability AI in spring 2022. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions. Do your own research.