Stability AI
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Stability AI is a company behind the Stable Diffusion image generation model and the Stable Audio sound generation models. In recent coverage, it raised a $76M Series B round led by major music-industry investors (including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, and Warner Music Group), along with Electronic Arts, to expand creative AI work, its creative production suite, and professional services. The company’s research and engineering efforts also featured in coverage, including work on optimizing SDXL inference performance and using its open-source audio model for local, GPU-free sound generation on Arm-based CPUs.
Updated 17 September 2026
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Source diversity
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Release activity
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Model, product and open-source release events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.
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Funding signals
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Jun 2022 → Aug 2026
Coverage span
As of 17 Sep 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.
Funding history
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$76 million Series B confirmed coverage →
Sony Music Group Universal Music Group Warner Music Group Electronic Arts AMD Ventures
Management
updated 2 Sep 2026- Emad Mostaque Founder
- Dennis Niedworok Head Of Applied Research
- Tom Mason CTO
- Nirmal Merchant Head of AI Solutons
- Shannon Samaris Executive Assistant to CEO
- Shimon Vainer Co-Head of 3D & Image at Stability AI
- Ryan Ellis Svp, Head Of Product
- Cedric Wagrez Head Of Data Strategy & Operations
- Christian Dowell General Counsel And Secretary
- Javad Azimi Director Of Engineering, Integrity
- Ryan Holeman CISO
- Sergey Panitkin Head of HPC
+ 3 more tracked
Recent changes
- Chantelle Palmer left (was SVP, People)
- Peter O'Donoghue CFO → Chief Financial Officer
Latest developments
Stability AI raises $76M, with Warner and Sony investing
Tech.eu · 3 weeks ago ·
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Quoting Sam Altman
Simon Willison's Weblog · 1 month ago ·
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Real-Time AI Sound Generation on Arm: A Personal Tool for Creative Freedom
Hugging Face · 1 year ago ·
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Data Machina #249
Substack · 2 years ago ·
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August 2026
AI security leaders warned at TechBBQ that risks from connected AI agents are increasing rapidly and require stronger, continuous controls Conference announcement
- “We Have to Assume That The Internet Will go Offline in the Next Few Years”
- Stability AI raises $76M from Universal, Sony and Warner Music to expand creative AI
- Major record labels, AMD back $76M round for Stability AI
- Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
- Stability AI raises $76M, with Warner and Sony investing
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Relationships
Investment & ownership
- Sony Music Group invests in this company · 3 sources
- Universal Music Group invests in this company · 3 sources
- Warner Music Group invests in this company · 3 sources
- Electronic Arts invests in this company · 2 sources
- AMD Ventures invests in this company · 2 sources
- Invests in Universal Music Group · 1 source
- Invests in Sony Music Group · 1 source
Products & technology
- Develops Latent Diffusion · 1 source
- Develops Stable Audio 2.0 · 1 source
- Develops Stable Diffusion · 1 source
- Develops SDXL · 1 source
- Develops Stable Audio · 1 source