The former hedge-fund manager who founded Stability AI, funded the release of Stable Diffusion in August 2022 and became for a season the most visible person in open image generation, then the subject of a June 2023 Forbes investigation that checked his public claims against the record. He resigned in March 2024, posting that he was leaving to pursue decentralised AI.
The resignation post in March 2024: 'not going to beat centralized AI with more centralized AI'. The record notes that it was the last sentence of the chapter and the first of a different one.
The record notes that Mostaque's public statements included an Oxford degree he had not completed and a UN role that was less than described, as reported, and that the reporting was met with a long thread in reply.
Someone remembers a 2022 interview in which he said the company would be the last one anyone needed. The record files the sentence beside the March 2024 headlines.
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