
He helped make image generation practical, then built a visual AI company in Freiburg. For Andreas Blattmann, the next question is what happens when pictures begin to move - and machines begin to act.
Robin Rombach helped make image generation practical, then went home to Freiburg to build the next chapter. At Black Forest Labs, his argument for open visual AI has travelled from research papers to the G7 table.
Before an image could be conjured from a sentence, Patrick Esser helped solve a less glamorous problem: how to make the image small enough for a machine to learn. The route from a Heidelberg lab to Black Forest Labs runs through that deceptively simple idea.