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Andreas Blattmann

Andreas Blattmann is a generative AI researcher and Black Forest Labs co-founder whose work helped shape latent diffusion. After school in Waldkirch, he studies mechanical engineering at KIT and moves into computer-vision research. His work spans the original Stable Diffusion release and Stable Video Diffusion; a rectified-flow transformer paper he coauthors receives ICML’s 2024 Best Paper award. Black Forest Labs develops the FLUX family of image-generation models. Since November 2025, he has served on the KI Bundesverband board for technology and innovation.

Now at
Black Forest Labs and German AI Association
Works
21

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Timeline

  1. 2012

    School and music

    He grows up in Waldkirch near Freiburg and completes his school-leaving exam there in 2012. Music shapes his school years as he plays in bands and considers studying music.

  2. 2010s

    An engineering student

    He studies mechanical engineering at KIT and joins a student group researching autonomous vehicles. There he works on image processing for the model cars, then applies for doctoral research in Björn Ommer’s computer-vision group in Heidelberg.

  3. 2021–2022

    Learning in latent space

    When Ommer moves his research group to LMU Munich in 2021, Blattmann follows the team. He coauthors High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models, which applies diffusion in pretrained autoencoders’ latent space to reduce computation.

  4. 2022–2023

    From images to video

    His earlier research posts include NVIDIA and Stability AI. In 2022, he and other academics help lead the original Stable Diffusion release; in 2023, he coauthors Stable Video Diffusion for text-to-video and image-to-video generation.

  5. 2024

    Scaling rectified flow

    He coauthors Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis, which receives ICML’s 2024 Best Paper award.

  6. 2024

    Founding Black Forest Labs

    He co-founds Black Forest Labs with Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, and other researchers. The company’s FLUX family supports generative images and image editing.

  7. Since November 2025

    A role on the AI board

    He is a Black Forest Labs co-founder and serves as board member for technology and innovation at the KI Bundesverband, a role that began in November 2025.

Sources and credits

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  1. Black Forest Labs: Europas KI-Einhorn aus Freiburg forbes.swiss. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Vorstand - KI-Verband - KI Bundesverband ki-verband.de. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Celebrating one year(ish) of Stable Diffusion … and what a year it’s been! stability.ai. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Stable Video Diffusion: Scaling Latent Video Diffusion Models to Large Datasets arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. ICML 2024 Awards icml.cc. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Welcome, Black Forest Labs! | Salesforce Ventures salesforceventures.com. Checked 14 October 2026.