$BLACK-FOREST-LABS · Black Forest Labs advocates open innovation as fundamental to AI progress and safety

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Black Forest Labs advocates open innovation as fundamental to AI progress and safety

2026-07-19 · 12 company · 7 thematic

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mark

CTO of AMD, leading chip design using thousands of AI sub-agents; sees agentic AI driving 1:1 CPU:GPU ratio and transforming end-to-end workflows.

pim

Founder of General Intuition, building models that predict multiple action types beyond text; argues AI progress is primarily driven by data quality rather than model complexity.

robin

Founder of Black Forest Labs building multimodal visual models for content creation and physical AI; advocates open innovation as fundamental to AI progress and safety.

matan

Founder of Factory, automating software engineering with 'droids' for large banks and enterprises; tracks enterprise model routing data showing rapid open model adoption.

philip johnston

Co-founder and CEO of Star Cloud, building data centers in space. Led the first deployment (Star Cloud 1) with five Nvidia GPUs including an H100, achieving first model training in space. Filed with SEC for 88,000 satellite constellation delivering 20GW compute capacity.

reine

Founder of Liquid AI building efficient foundation models deployable on edge devices (Raspberry Pi); powers Mercedes-Benz in-car intelligence; proposes three-axis model design (intelligence, efficiency, substrate).

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“open innovation is good for the world. And I think fear-mongering around AI models is only going to lead to them being more close and that's ultimately going to slow leading to slow down all AI progress and I think ultimately it's super im…”

—robin

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