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Apr 2024
1h 19m

AI Power Wars | Emad Mostaque

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About this episode

Today on the show, we have the founder of Stability AI, Emad Mostaque.

Emad recently left his company citing “You can’t beat centralized AI with more centralized AI” and decided to venture into the frontier of decentralized AI.

We touch on the economical consequences of AI, why it needs to be open-source and distributed and the role of Crypto in decentralizing AI.

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0:00 Intro 5:26 Navigating AI & Web3 10:52 AI Governance 18:03 Decentralizing AI 26:54 Balancing Coordination 33:52 Decentralized AI Infrastructure 40:10 Emad’s Projects 48:40 Decentralization Trade-Offs 58:53 Governance Structure 1:02:50 AI Regulation 1:06:36 Custom AI Models 1:12:21 AI Economical Consequences 1:17:11 AI x Crypto 1:20:47 Closing Thoughts

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Emad Mostaque https://twitter.com/EMostaque 

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