Analysis

August 16, 2023

Stability AI’s talent exodus: the list

10 senior employees of Stability AI have left the company in recent months, in roles ranging from engineering to product and HR


Tim Smith

4 min read

Stability AI's former CEO Emad Mostaque

It’s no secret that much-hyped generative AI startup Stability AI has been having a tough time of it recently. The company burst onto the scene with a $101m Series A in October, off the back of the release of open source AI image generator Stable Diffusion (which Stability AI funded), making it Europe’s leading new player in the booming generative AI sector.

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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