# Emad Mostaque Emad Mostaque develops and advocates open AI systems through Intelligent Internet and contributes to Moonshots; he formerly led Stability AI; his proposals and team research retain separate attribution. Type: person. Context selected by Escape Meridian; inclusion is not endorsement. [Collection](/entities/emad-mostaque) [Primary reference](https://ii.inc/blog/post/master-plan) ## Sources - [Emad Mostaque — existing tracker reference](https://ii.inc/blog/post/master-plan): Connect the existing canonical profile to its evidence in the source corpus without adding a new statement or relationship registry. ## Perspectives ## Terminal notes ## Parallels ## Context references - [https://ii.inc/blog/post/master-plan](https://ii.inc/blog/post/master-plan) - [https://www.ii.inc/web/blog/post/introduction-blog](https://www.ii.inc/web/blog/post/introduction-blog) - [https://stability.ai/news/stabilityai-announcement](https://stability.ai/news/stabilityai-announcement) Legacy published distillations: [Publications API](/api/pipeline/publications?entity=emad-mostaque) ## Profile and attribution Escape Meridian selects and paraphrases these records. A mention, shared topic or affiliation does not establish authorship, endorsement, agreement or causation. Missing positions remain unknown. Intelligent Internet founder; recurring Moonshots contributor Profile reviewed: 2026-10-14. AI-company leadership and original proposals concerning open systems and institutions. Development, open systems and political economy; team findings retain team attribution. Founder of Intelligent Internet; former Stability AI CEO, not its current CEO. - [Intelligent Internet introduction](https://www.ii.inc/web/blog/post/introduction-blog) - [Stability AI departure announcement](https://stability.ai/news/stabilityai-announcement) ## Dated contributor context ## Roles and affiliations - [Emad Mostaque](/entities/emad-mostaque) · [Intelligent Internet](/entities/intelligent-internet): Intelligent Internet founder; recurring Moonshots contributor (profile-review: 2026-10-14). [Intelligent Internet introduction](https://www.ii.inc/web/blog/post/introduction-blog); [Stability AI departure announcement](https://stability.ai/news/stabilityai-announcement) - [Emad Mostaque](/entities/emad-mostaque) · [Stability AI](/entities/stability-ai): Chief Executive Officer of Stability AI (source-publication: 2023-05-16). [Advocating for Open Models in AI Oversight: Stability AI's Letter to the United States Senate](https://stability.ai/news-updates/stability-ai-letter-us-senate-ai-oversight) - [Emad Mostaque](/entities/emad-mostaque) · [Stability AI](/entities/stability-ai): Former Stability AI CEO, interviewed about Schelling AI (source-publication: 2024-08-14). [The Sequence Chat: Emad Mostaque -Stability AI, Schelling AI- About Open and Decentralized AI](https://thesequence.substack.com/p/the-sequence-chat-emad-mostaque-stability) - [Emad Mostaque](/entities/emad-mostaque) · [Intelligent Internet](/entities/intelligent-internet): Founder and CEO of Intelligent Internet (source-publication: 2025-07-24). [Master Plan (open source, not so secret 🤷🏾)](https://ii.inc/blog/post/master-plan) ## Dated statements - 2025-07-24 — [Give people AI they own](/tracker/?question=power-and-risk&statement=mostaque-sovereign-ai-2025): Mostaque proposes that people own and command open, specialized agents, against a path where intelligence is centralized in opaque models and agency is rented back as a subscription. Attributed to Emad Mostaque. [Original source](https://ii.inc/blog/post/master-plan). The page displays 24 Jul 2025 above the byline naming Emad Mostaque, Founder and CEO. A manifesto. It does not show that the proposed ledger or agents exist or distribute power. Company advocacy that promotes Intelligent Internet's own products (II-Agent, II-Medical, Common Ground). - 2024-08-14 — [AGI from scaling LLMs is unlikely](/tracker/?question=scaling-and-learning&statement=mostaque-llm-scaling-unlikely-2024): Mostaque says AGI from scaling large language models is unlikely. He compares further scaling of poor data to cooking longer, producing more capability without necessarily producing generalized knowledge in an individual model. Attributed to Emad Mostaque. [Original source](https://thesequence.substack.com/p/the-sequence-chat-emad-mostaque-stability). Interview header reads Aug 14, 2024. A short interview answer, not a technical paper. The publisher's biography is not his claim. - 2024-08-14 — [Public systems should not be opaque or closely held](/tracker/?question=power-and-risk&statement=mostaque-public-systems-not-black-boxes-2024): Mostaque says AI for healthcare, education and government should be open to scrutiny and not controlled by an unelected few. He sees open and closed models as complementary, while expecting closed models to outperform by adding private data and fully decentralized training to lag centralized clusters. Attributed to Emad Mostaque. [Original source](https://thesequence.substack.com/p/the-sequence-chat-emad-mostaque-stability). Interview header reads Aug 14, 2024. Interview answers, not a statute or a system design. The always-outperform remark rests on his reasoning that closed developers can add private data to open models, not on a benchmark. - 2023-05-16 — [Promote open models for public scrutiny](/tracker/?question=power-and-risk&statement=mostaque-promote-openness-2023): Mostaque, signing as Stability AI's CEO, asks the Senate subcommittee to promote openness. The letter argues that open models and datasets improve safety through transparency, encourage competition and support US leadership. Attributed to Emad Mostaque, signing for Stability AI. [Original source](https://stability.ai/news-updates/stability-ai-letter-us-senate-ai-oversight). The announcement page's datePublished metadata is 2023-05-16T16:48:22+0000. The signed letter itself is dated May 13, 2023. The public release date is used. Written mostly in Stability AI's voice and signed by Mostaque as CEO. The attached risk taxonomy and five oversight suggestions are the company's submission. The announcement page names a different CMS author and was modified on 14 October 2024; the signed letter itself is dated 13 May 2023. ## Connected questions - [Can AI keep improving without more of the same data?](/tracker/?question=scaling-and-learning) - [Who should have power over increasingly capable AI?](/tracker/?question=power-and-risk) ## Comparisons and changes - Who should have power over increasingly capable AI? — Both call for AI that is open to public scrutiny. The 2023 letter says open models improve safety through transparency; the 2024 interview says public-sector AI should not run on black boxes controlled by an unelected few. Continuity is the transparency and scrutiny claim. The 2023 letter is a company submission he signed as CEO; the 2024 answers are personal, after leaving Stability AI. His 2024 remarks that closed models will outperform and decentralized training will lag have no 2023 counterpart, so they are not a revision. [Promote open models for public scrutiny](/tracker/?question=power-and-risk&statement=mostaque-promote-openness-2023) (2023-05-16; [source](https://stability.ai/news-updates/stability-ai-letter-us-senate-ai-oversight)); [Public systems should not be opaque or closely held](/tracker/?question=power-and-risk&statement=mostaque-public-systems-not-black-boxes-2024) (2024-08-14; [source](https://thesequence.substack.com/p/the-sequence-chat-emad-mostaque-stability)) - Who should have power over increasingly capable AI? — Both reject centralized opaque intelligence for systems people depend on. The later plan proposes agents that users own and command. Continuity is that control objection. The July 2025 plan does not restate, and therefore does not confirm, the August 2024 claim that closed models will always outperform open ones. [Public systems should not be opaque or closely held](/tracker/?question=power-and-risk&statement=mostaque-public-systems-not-black-boxes-2024) (2024-08-14; [source](https://thesequence.substack.com/p/the-sequence-chat-emad-mostaque-stability)); [Give people AI they own](/tracker/?question=power-and-risk&statement=mostaque-sovereign-ai-2025) (2025-07-24; [source](https://ii.inc/blog/post/master-plan)) ## Current readings Checked all 12 current publications. Showing up to 30 connected readings, ordered by original source date. No current reading is connected to this identity in the checked collection.