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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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TIMESTAMPS

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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RESOURCES

Emad Mostaque
https://twitter.com/EMostaque 

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