person
Robin Rombach
Black Forest Labs co-founder; Stable Diffusion lead
Co-founder of Black Forest Labs (Flux series of image models); previously lead author on the original Stable Diffusion paper at LMU Munich, before joining Stability AI.
current Co-founder, Black Forest Labs
past Researcher, Stability AI
Strategy positions
Open sourceendorses
Release weights widely; transparency beats closed safetyArgues open-weight image-generation models, not just open APIs, are necessary for the field to keep developing safety properties externally; co-built Black Forest Labs on this thesis.
Latent diffusion models compress the image generation problem into a learned latent space, making high-resolution generation accessible to consumer hardware.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.