$BLACK-FOREST-LABS · Black Forest Labs raises significant capital, hits 100 employees building multimodal world models for robotics

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Black Forest Labs raises significant capital, hits 100 employees building multimodal world models for robotics

2026-07-10 · 5 company · 8 thematic

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andrew feldman

Leads Cerebras, a public company (CBRS) building wafer-scale AI inference chips; previously co-founded SeaMicro (acquired by AMD); describes $25B backlog and global data center buildout at unprecedented scale.

robin rombach

Co-invented latent diffusion (basis for Stable Diffusion, Flux); leads Black Forest Labs building open-source multimodal models for images, video, audio, and robot action prediction; company has 100+ employees across Germany and San Francisco.

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“We raised a bunch of money... we just crossed 100 people... we are now tackling models that are really made for understanding like the whole world around us multimodal visual models... combining that with something that's called action pre…”

—robin rombach

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