Emad Mostaque: The Models They'll Never Release to the Public

April 13
1h 33m

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Emad Mostaque built Stable Diffusion. Now he says the most powerful AI models will never be released — and we have roughly 800 days before everything changes.

What the trillion-dollar labs won't tell you about the models they're keeping locked away 👇

Emad Mostaque is the founder of Stability AI and creator of Stable Diffusion. In this conversation, he explains why the gap between public AI and private AI is about to become the most important story in technology — and why most people won't realize it until it's too late.

We cover: why open source can't compete with trillion-dollar labs, what happens when humans have negative cognitive value on AI teams, how ancient faith traditions are adapting to superintelligence, and the 800-day timeline Emad puts on the biggest transition in human history.

Timestamps:

  • 00:00 The models too dangerous to release
  • 10:06 Why physics needs axioms — and AI doesn't
  • 11:43 The MIND framework most AI researchers won't use
  • 17:36 The universe might be a computation
  • 30:34 Should we let AI fly planes?
  • 39:43 AI just invented a game no human could design
  • 44:43 Why AI will cost almost nothing in 18 months
  • 51:46 Can religion survive superintelligence?
  • 57:36 The AI companion problem nobody talks about
  • 01:03:20 Why personalized AI is more dangerous than AGI
  • 01:11:18 The forgotten link between God and science
  • 01:26:32 800 days: what happens next

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