# Andreas Blattmann

> Andreas Blattmann is a co-founder of Freiburg-based Black Forest Labs and a co-inventor of latent diffusion, the research behind Stable Diffusion. After research at Heidelberg University, LMU Munich, NVIDIA and Stability AI, he helped launch FLUX in 2024 and now works on visual models spanning images, video and action prediction. He also serves on the German AI Association's board for technology and innovation.

- **Role:** Co-founder, Black Forest Labs; board member for technology and innovation, KI Bundesverband
- **Organizations:** Black Forest Labs, KI Bundesverband, Stability AI, NVIDIA, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Heidelberg University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- **Education:** Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Co-inventor of latent diffusion and co-developer of Stable Diffusion., Co-founder of Black Forest Labs and contributor to its FLUX model family., Co-authored Stable Video Diffusion research.

## Career timeline

- **2021** — Co-authored the latent diffusion research later published at CVPR 2022.
- **2022** — Worked with collaborators on Stable Diffusion and published research on retrieval-augmented diffusion.
- **2023** — Led or co-authored research on latent video diffusion and Stable Video Diffusion.
- **2024** — Co-founded Black Forest Labs in Freiburg; the company launched FLUX.1 in August.
- **2024** — Named to Capital Magazin's Germany Top 40 Under 40 list.
- **2025** — Joined the KI Bundesverband board for technology and innovation in November.
- **2026** — Spoke publicly about visual intelligence and physical AI as Black Forest Labs expanded its model work into video and action prediction.

## Achievements

- Co-inventor of latent diffusion and co-developer of Stable Diffusion.
- Co-founder of Black Forest Labs and contributor to its FLUX model family.
- Co-authored Stable Video Diffusion research.
- Named to Capital Magazin's Germany Top 40 Under 40 in 2024.
- Elected to the KI Bundesverband board for technology and innovation in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Black Forest Labs introduced FLUX 3 Action, an open-weights world action model.
- **2026-08** — Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3 Video for video generation with synchronized audio.
- **2026-04** — At HumanX, Blattmann spoke about visual intelligence and the lab's interest in physical AI.
- **2025-11** — Blattmann joined the KI Bundesverband board for technology and innovation.

## Links

- Website: https://bfl.ai/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/andi_blatt
- GitHub: https://github.com/ablattmann

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Last updated: 2026-09-29