Ed Newton-Rex
Founder, Fairly Trained
Ed Newton-Rex is CEO of Fairly Trained, a non-profit he founded in 2024 that certifies generative AI companies for fairer training data practices. In 2010 he founded Jukedeck, one of the first AI music generation startups, which was acquired by ByteDance. At ByteDance, Ed led the AI Music lab, then led product for TikTok in Europe. He later led the Audio team at Stability AI, where his team’s product, Stable Audio, was named one of TIME Magazine’s best inventions of the year in 2023. He is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a composer of choral music.
