Emad Mostaque
Also known as Stability AI, Intelligent Internet
Emad Mostaque is a technology founder known for Stability AI and its role in releasing Stable Diffusion. In 2022, Stability AI co-released Stable Diffusion with researchers from LMU Munich and Runway, making a text-to-image model available for people to build on. Mostaque left Stability AI’s chief executive and board roles in March 2024. He later founded Intelligent Internet. Its public writing sets out plans for AI systems and infrastructure. His book The Last Economy appeared in 2025. These later works discuss possible economic change and make proposals about how AI development could be organized.
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Timeline
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Before the public model release
Founding Stability AI
Mostaque founded Stability AI and became its chief executive. The company supported work on generative models and public access to them. His role combined company building with advocacy for tools that other people could download, use and develop into their own projects.
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August 2022
Co-releasing Stable Diffusion
Stability AI co-released Stable Diffusion on 22 August 2022 with researchers from LMU Munich and Runway. The release let people use a text-to-image model through public model files. It depended on shared research and engineering work, with Mostaque leading the company involved in supporting the release.
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March 2024
Leaving Stability AI leadership
Stability AI announced Mostaque’s resignation as chief executive and from its board in March 2024. His later company work moved toward a different organization and public proposals about the structure and economics of AI systems.
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March–July 2025
Developing Intelligent Internet
Intelligent Internet introduced its work publicly in March 2025. A July master plan identified Mostaque as founder and chief executive and described the systems the company intended to build. The plans connected models, applications and infrastructure within his wider argument about AI development.
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August 2026
Returning to the book’s argument
A year after the book’s release, Intelligent Internet published a follow-up through Intelligent Internet. He returned to its economic argument and considered developments since publication. This continued a public body of work about AI systems, company plans and the changes he expects them to produce.
Sources and credits
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