Pros
A lot of compute, but not much else
Cons
Compared to literally any other lab in the world with equivalent amount of compute there's a significant lack of focus and quality output. I've seen labs like Anthropic start with similar amount of money and in a few months build a robust infrastructure conducive to all their experiments while at Stability there's no focus on how to get where they want to be at all. It's all vague ideas by people who have no experience with AI in the upper management positions making decisions they're not qualified for. If there was even one technical person in the leadership position the hiring strategy and the company direction could move towards more productivity. They're destroying their goodwill by creating a bloat at the upper levels while not treating the engineers fairly. It also somehow managed to combine the worst aspects of startups and corporations, with both low wages and overworked employees combined with no upward trajectory and no ownership for engineers. Senior people are hired from the outside and don't even stay if they're half capable, anyone who could do good work has already left.
