Co-founder of Black Forest Labs · Stable Diffusion creatorCo-founder of Black Forest Labs · Stable Diffusion creator
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German AI researcher who studied generative image modeling at LMU Munich under Bjorn Ommer. He was the lead author of 'Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis' (VQGAN) and a co-author of the latent diffusion model paper that became the basis of Stable Diffusion. At Stability AI he led Stable Diffusion 3,introducing the multimodal diffusion transformer (MM-DiT) architecture. In 2024 he co-founded Black Forest Labs with Robin Rombach to build frontier image and video generative models,releasing the widely adopted FLUX.1 family.
German AI researcher who studied generative image modeling at LMU Munich under Bjorn Ommer. He was the lead author of 'Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis' (VQGAN) and a co-author of the latent diffusion model paper that became the basis of Stable Diffusion. At Stability AI he led Stable Diffusion 3,introducing the multimodal diffusion transformer (MM-DiT) architecture. In 2024 he co-founded Black Forest Labs with Robin Rombach to build frontier image and video generative models,releasing the widely adopted FLUX.1 family.