The Future of Cryptocurrency and AI with Emad Mostaque

Emad Mostaque is the Founder and CEO at Stability AI. In this episode of The Edge Podcast, we interview one of the most sought after AI experts in the world! Emad's team at Stability AI is building the world’s leading open source generative AI company, which is known for their flagship Stable Diffusion, first released in August 2022. Stable Diffusion text-to-image model is widely used to generate detailed images based on text descriptions. Just one month after the release of StableDiffusion 2.0, four of the top 10 applications on Apple’s App Store were powered by Stable Diffusion. Emad has been invested and experimenting with crypto for many years but despite all his media appearances, few have asked him about his thoughts on the synergies between cryptocurrencies, Web3, and AI--until now! We ask every burning question, including how he believes AI can leverage crypto, how crypto can leverage AI, how tokenization can be used by AI startups, and what the future holds specifically for Stability AI and Web3. ------ 📺 If you prefer video, watch episodes of The Edge Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNzMl-Xdbc4YfQcYdy96wgTAWoMr-3b-j THIS IS NOT A RECOMMENDATION OR ENDORSEMENT TO BUY ANY TOKEN OR NFT RELATED TO ANY PLATFORMS DISCUSSED. ------ 🌲 LINKTREE FOR THE EDGE PODCAST: https://linktr.ee/edge_pod 🔎 DISCOVER DEFI & WEB3 BLOG POSTS, PODCASTS, TUTORIALS: http://defidad.com/ ✅ FOLLOW DEFI DAD ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ✅ FOLLOW NOMATIC ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Nomaticcap ------ The Edge Podcast Sponsor Resources 🏗️ MANTLE | HIGH-PERFORMANCE ETHEREUM L2 WITH MODULAR DESIGN, LOW FEES, AND HIGH SECURITY https://linktr.ee/mantle.xyz ⚖️ KYBERSWAP | DECENTRALIZED EXCHANGE AGGREGATOR AND AMM https://kyberswap.com/?&utm_source=KOL&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=defidad&utm_content=overview 📈 GTRADE | DECENTRALIZED LEVERAGE TRADING https://gains.trade/ 🥑 INSTADAPP | CHECK OUT THE NEW AVOCADO SMART CONTRACT WALLET https://avocado.instadapp.io/ ⛩️ UTOPIA | PAYROLL AND EXPENSE MANAGEMENT FOR DAOS https://www.utopialabs.com/ 🌊 STADER | MULTICHAIN LIQUID STAKING https://staderlabs.com/ 🚀 LIQUITY | UNSTOPPABLE ETH-BACKED STABLECOINS AND LEVERAGE https://www.liquity.org/ 🙋‍♀️ Interested to sponsor The Edge Podcast? Fill this out: https://hl6pu9d99u5.typeform.com/to/E3NY5Mqn ------ Topics Covered 00:00 - Intro 05:45 - Emad's background 08:13 - The impact of AI 13:18 - Founding Stability AI 16:10 - Exponential growth of StableDiffusion 17:43 - Why open source AI 21:02 - Synergies between Web3 x AI 25:10 - Tokenization for AI startups 28:33 - Big business investing in AI 31:46 - AirBnB for graphics cards model 33:53 - AI agents using smart contracts 35:45 - Education reimagined with AI 41:43 - AI using blockchain for data provenance, digital rights, governance 45:44 - Zero knowledge tech x ML 48:07 - Worldcoin 49:43 - Advice for crypto startups on AI strategies 50:37 - What's next for Stability AI x Web3 51:36 - Next year for Stability AI 52:32 - Closing ------ Guest Links Emad on Twitter https://twitter.com/EMostaque Learn about Stability AI https://stability.ai/ Follow Stability AI on Twitter https://twitter.com/stabilityai Careers at Stability AI https://stability.ai/careers GitHub Stars Chart Referenced for StableDiffusion https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1587038222722408450?s=20 ------ 🙏 The Edge Podcast is produced by 4RC Labs. If you're a DeFi/Web3 builder, contact our team at: https://fourthrevolution.capital/ All opinions expressed by hosts and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and not necessarily those of Fourth Revolution Capital. Podcast guests and 4RC may have positions in the assets or other matters discussed in this podcast. 4RC invested in the pre-seed round for Stability AI in spring 2022. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions. Do your own research.