When generative AI startup Stability AI raised a $101m Series A round in October 2022, many wondered where the company had come from. CEO Emad Mostaque — a former hedge fund manager — was a relative unknown in the machine learning community. Yet Stability appeared to be behind Stable Diffusion, one of the most impressive text-to-image models on the market, ready to rival even a Silicon Valley giant like OpenAI.
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