#latent diffusion

AI Business

Black Forest Labs: 70 Germans in the Woods Outpacing AI Image Titans

Imagine a 70-person team in Germany's Black Forest—famous for ham, not hype—raking in a $3.25 billion valuation. They're not just competing with OpenAI; they're powering the giants.

AI Research

PLAID Hijacks Protein Folders' Latents to Spit Out New Sequences and Structures

Everyone figured AlphaFold's Nobel meant peak prediction era. PLAID says no—it's repurposing those models to crank out novel proteins, trained on sequence troves 1,000x larger than structures.