Summary:
On August 2, Pinwan reported that Robin Rombach, a co-author of Stable Diffusion, has launched a new company called Black Forest Lab, alongside several former Stability AI employees. The startup has secured $31 million in seed funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with contributions from notable investors including Brendan Iribe, Michael Ovitz, and Garry Tan. Black Forest Lab introduced its latest product, the FLUX.1 series of image generation models, which utilize a hybrid architecture combining multimodal and parallel diffusion Transformer blocks, scaling up to 12 billion parameters.