Everyone leaves their old employer, Stable Diffusion leads a team to start a business, defeating MJ v6 and SD3 with just one move, and also open-source

Editors: Du Wei, Jia Qi

Another powerful player has joined the field of AI image and video generation.

Do you still remember the research scientist who left the AI startup Stability AI at the end of March this yearRobin RombachIs that okay? As one of the two main authors who developed the Wenshengtu model Stable Diffusion, he joined Stability AI in 2022.

Now, nearly five months after resigning from Stability AI, Robin Rombach tweeted the good news of his own entrepreneurship!

He founded Black Forest Labs with the aim of advancing high-quality generative deep learning models for image and video using SOTA, and making them available for use by as many people as possible.

The team is composed of outstanding AI researchers and engineers, whose previous representative works include VQGAN and Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion models in the field of image and video generation (including Stable Diffusion XL, Stable Video Diffusion…