Rombach: Black Forest Labs builds multimodal models for physical AI
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Robin Rombach, co-founder of Black Forest Labs (creators of Stable Diffusion and Flux), describes the startup's current development focus.
“We are building multimodal visual models for content creation and for now physical AI.”
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