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April 24, 2025

Black Forest Labs: Europe’s most-hyped — and elusive — startup?

The startup is fast becoming one of Europe’s most-talked-about AI companies


Image: Unsplash / Black Forest Labs.

At Swiss conference Start Summit in March, generative AI wunderkind Robin Rombach found himself in the middle of a crowd of people wanting to speak to him.

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Rombach presents latent space models at the Big Techday conference in 2023.
Photo: Big Techday/ Youtube.
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Black Forest Labs' website. Photo: Black Forest Labs.
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