Emad Mostaque is an AI founder who co-founded Stability AI and, after resigning as its CEO in March 2024, shifted focus to decentralized and sovereign AI. Emad's Twitter Score is 371 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #675 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Emad co-founded Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, and served as its CEO until stepping down from both the CEO role and the Board of Directors on March 23, 2024, to pursue decentralized AI. Following his departure, Stability AI's board appointed Shan Shan Wong and Christian Laforte as interim co-CEOs. Per TechCrunch, Stability AI raised $101 million in October 2022 in a round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from O'Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. Getty Images has filed legal claims against Stability AI alleging misuse of Getty images for AI training.
Emad founded Intelligent Internet, his current venture focused on building sovereign and open-source AI infrastructure. Emad's account has 20,672 posts and has been active since 2011. Emad has been mentioned by 261 accounts, with 916 total mentions.
As an angel investor, Emad has backed Prime Intellect, Confetti and Lightfield.
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The accounts that follow Emad include 1,540 founders, 406 angel investors, 444 influencers and 24 VCs. Among them are Balaji, Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, vitalik.eth, Sam Altman and Nikita Bier.