Chaos at Stability AI: CEO resigns after pressure and talent exodus

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Instability defines Stability AI. After a series of executive departures and pressure from investors, Emad Mostaque, founder and CEO of the startup, has just resigned from his position, leaving the company in turmoil.

Understand the Stability AI situation

  • Disagreements and resignation: Mostaque claims to have left to focus on decentralized artificial intelligence, arguing that the concentration of power in the industry is “harmful to everyone”.
  • Investor pressure: The resignation is the culmination of months of tensions with major investors, such as Coatue Management, who called for Mostaque's departure.
  • Exodus of brains: In addition to the departure of the CEO, the AI stability lost several key researchers in the week before resigning.
  • Cash burn: According to reports, the startup was spending around $8 million per month as of October 2023.

Stability AI team suffers significant casualties; know more

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Stability AI, a generative artificial intelligence startup known for its Stable Diffusion imaging model, is facing problems with the departure of three of the team's five main researchers.

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