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SPEAKER 1 0:00:00
I want to send a huge thanks to our friends at AWS for their continued support of the podcast and their sponsorship of our reinvent 2022 series. You know AWS is a cloud computing leader, but did you realize the company offers a broad array of services and infrastructure at all three layers of the machine learning technology stack? In fact, tens of thousands of customers trust AWS for machine learning and AI services. And the company aims to put ML in the hands of every practitioner with innovative services like Amazon Code Whisperer, a new ML powered pair programming tool that helps developers improve productivity by significantly reducing the time to build software applications. To learn more about AWS ML and AI services and how they're helping customers accelerate their machine learning journeys, visit twimlai.com slash go slash AWS ML. All right, everyone, this is Sam Charrington, host of the Twiml AI podcast. And today I'm coming to you live from the Future Frequency podcast studio at the AWS reinvent conference here in Las Vegas. And I am joined by Ahmad Mostak. Ahmad is founder and CEO of Stability AI. If this is the first episode of our reinvent series that you are listening to, don't try adjusting your audio settings. It's definitely me. After a few days here at reinvent in the dry desert here in Nevada, my voice is on his last legs, but I think we'll make it through this. Before we get going, be sure to take a moment to hit that subscribe button wherever you're listening to today's show. And if you want to check us out in studio, you can bounce over to YouTube for the interview.
SPEAKER 2 0:01:42
Ahmad, welcome to the podcast. Thanks so much for having me. Super excited to talk to you.
SPEAKER 1 0:01:46
You are of course the founder and CEO of Stability. Stability is the company behind StableDiffusion, which is a multimodal model that has been getting a lot of fanfare, I think. Welcome. And I'd love to jump in by having you share a little bit about your background.
SPEAKER 2 0:02:02
Yeah, no, I think it's been super interesting. I think StableDiffusion is kind of a specific text to image model. As for me, let's say I started off as a computer science at uni,
SPEAKER 1 0:02:10
enterprise developer, and then became a hedge fund manager and one of the largest video game investors in the world and then artificial intelligence. And I was doing that, it was a
SPEAKER 2 0:02:18
lot of fun. And then my son was diagnosed with autism and they said there was no cure or treatment.
SPEAKER 1 0:02:23
So I quit, switched to advising hedge funds and built an AI team to do literature review, all the autism literature, and then biomolecular pathway analysis of neurotransmitters to repurpose drugs to help him out. And it kind of worked. He went to mainstream scho...