Patrick Esser

Founder

Co-founder of Black Forest Labs. Co-creator of Stable Diffusion. Former Stability AI researcher at LMU Munich.

Overview

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Founder

Companies

1 company
Black Forest Labs $331M
Private Founder

Black Forest Labs is a frontier AI lab building state-of-the-art generative AI models for images and video. Founded by the creators of Stable Diffusion, the company develops the FLUX family of open-source text-to-image models, which have achieved over 400 million downloads and are used by Adobe, Canva, Meta, and Microsoft.

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