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Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
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Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
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He did provide thousands of GPUs for training all those open-source and open-weights models, no?
Maybe… he certainly was good at taking credit for it. Not course if they stepped in, rebranded something they didn’t make and threw a bunch of AwS GPUs they couldn’t actually afford at it though https://petapixel.com/2023/06/05/so-many-things-dont-add-up-...
So where can I download that thing he took credit for?
Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Emad had the genius idea of essentially paying for the branding rights to an AI model. This was viewed as insane in the pre-ChatGPT era, and only paid off massively in retrospect. Also all those 'controversies' were mostly the result of an aggrieved co-founder/investor who decided to sell their shares before SD1.4's success. Emad may not have proven to be competent enough to run an large AI lab in the long run, but t…
> This was viewed as insane in the pre-ChatGPT era, and only paid off massively in retrospect. Paid off how?
Perhaps the hundreds of millions in VC investment and company value?
Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think when parsing that statement it's important to understand his (and your) definition of "programmer". We (I) tend to use the term "programmer" in a generic way, encompassing a bunch of tasks waaay beyond "just typing in new code". Whereas I suspect he used it in the narrowest possible definition (literally, code-typer). My day job (which I call programming) consists of needs analysis, data-modelling, workflow a…
There are almost no programmers today (you need to do malloc and low level sys calls in C to be considered a programmer).
I don't think you can be considered a programmer if you can't write your own syscall firmware code in assembly.
Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
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Midjourney is the most popular discord channel by far with 19.5M+ members, $200M in revenue in 2023 with 0 external investments and only 40 employees. The problem has nothing to do with commercializing image gen AI and all to do with Emad/Stability having seemingly 0 sensible business plans. Seriously this seemed to be the plan: Step 1: Release SD for free Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit The vast majority of users couldn'…
>The vast majority of users couldn't be bothered to take the steps necessary to get it running locally so I don't even think the open sourcing philosophy would have been a serious hurdle to wider commercial adoption. The more I think about the AI space the more I realize that open sourcing large models is pointless now. Until you can reasonably buy a rig to run the model there is simply no point in doing this. It's n…
The released image generation models run on consumer GPUs. Even the big LLMs will run on a $3500 Mac with reasonable performance, and the CPU of a dirt cheap machine if you don't care about it being slow, which is sometimes important and sometimes isn't.
Also, things like this are in the works:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39794864
Which will put the system RAM of the new 24-channel PC servers in range of the Nvidia H100 on memory bandwidth, while using commodity DDR5.
Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
#136Previous controversy involving the CEO (2023): https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/06/04/stable-di... “ In reality, Mostaque has a bachelor’s degree, not a master’s degree from Oxford. The hedge fund’s banner year was followed by one so poor that it shut down months later. The U.N. hasn’t worked with him for years. And while Stable Diffusion was the main reason for his own startup Stability AI’s ascent to pr…
> What he is good at is taking other people’s work and putting his name on it, or doing stuff that you can’t check if it’s true.
I have to say, this is a quite common ignorant statement that's said about almost every CEO.
I'm not sure if there's more to it in this particular case, but no, CEOs aren't stealing your work. Similarly, marketers aren't parasites. Designers aren't there to waste your time. Many engineers seem to hold similar belief that others are holding them down or taking advantage of their work. This is just a congnitive bias.
Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
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> crypto nonsense on twitter got any links?
Not twitter but here he is talking about that: https://youtu.be/BdZo4JUBSQk
Wow much of what he’s saying in that video is a lie with regards to the history of latent diffusion, creating an open source GPT3, etc. Just taking credit for a bunch of work he didn’t have much to do with.
Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The vast majority of users couldn't be bothered to take the steps necessary to get it running locally so I don't even think the open sourcing philosophy would have been a serious hurdle to wider commercial adoption. The more I think about the AI space the more I realize that open sourcing large models is pointless now. Until you can reasonably buy a rig to run the model there is simply no point in doing this. It's n…
The released image generation models run on consumer GPUs. Even the big LLMs will run on a $3500 Mac with reasonable performance, and the CPU of a dirt cheap machine if you don't care about it being slow, which is sometimes important and sometimes isn't. Also, things like this are in the works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39794864 Which will put the system RAM of the new 24-channel PC servers in range of the…
The `big' AI models are trillion parameter models.
The medium sized models like GPT3 and Grok are 185b and 314b respectively.
There is no way for _anyone_ to run these on a sub $50k machine in 2024, and even if you can the token generation speed on CPU is under 0.1 tokens per second.
Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
#139He's leaving to work on decentralized AI? That's exactly what Stability AI was doing before it became clear the economics no longer work out in practice, and starting a new company wouldn't change that. (Emad is an advisory board member to a decentralized GPU company, though: https://home.otoy.com/stabilityai/ ) Obviously this is the polite way to send him off given the latest news about his leadership, but this rati…
I’m guessing Emad sees the “rationale” in the recent revival of crypto prices - and the subsequent demand for altcoins
AI + Crypto bull market is a recipe for grabbing tons of VC money
Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
The released image generation models run on consumer GPUs. Even the big LLMs will run on a $3500 Mac with reasonable performance, and the CPU of a dirt cheap machine if you don't care about it being slow, which is sometimes important and sometimes isn't. Also, things like this are in the works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39794864 Which will put the system RAM of the new 24-channel PC servers in range of the…
The `big' AI models are trillion parameter models. The medium sized models like GPT3 and Grok are 185b and 314b respectively. There is no way for _anyone_ to run these on a sub $50k machine in 2024, and even if you can the token generation speed on CPU is under 0.1 tokens per second.
ChatGPT is 20B according to Microsoft researchers, also the fact that big AI models are trillion parameter models is mostly speculation, about GPT-4 it was spread by geohot.