Image generation People

Emad Mostaque is a British-Bangladeshi former hedge fund manager who founded Stability AI in 2019 and served as its CEO until he resigned in March 2024.

First author of the latent diffusion paper that underlies Stable Diffusion, and later co-founder and CEO of Black Forest Labs, the company behind the FLUX image models.

David Holz is the founder of Midjourney, a San Francisco independent research lab whose text-to-image tool became one of the best-known AI art generators. He earlier co-founded the hand-tracking hardware company Leap Motion.

Andreas Blattmann is a researcher on generative image models, second author of the latent diffusion paper behind Stable Diffusion, co-author of the Stable Diffusion 3 paper, and a 2024 co-founder of Black Forest Labs, which released the FLUX.1 models.

Patrick Esser is a researcher on generative image and video models: a co-author of the latent diffusion paper that became the basis of Stable Diffusion, lead author of the Stable Diffusion 3 paper, and a 2024 co-founder of Black Forest Labs.