# clm_E9B24B798D34

subject: Black Forest Labs (/record/black-forest-labs.md)  
predicate: founder  
value: Robin Rombach  
valid_from: 2024-01-01  
valid_to: null  
published: 2024-08-14  
recorded: 2026-10-31  
confidence: 0.95  
status: valid  
assertable: true  
superseded_by: null  
last_updated: 2026-10-31  
checked: 2026-10-31 · its source page states the value and the date  

> The startup’s co-founders, Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, and Andreas Blattmann, were formerly researchers who helped create Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion models.

What https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/14/meet-black-forest-labs-the-startup-powering-elon-musks-unhinged-ai-image-generator/ says, word for word.

## Sources

- https://www.northzone.com/insights/black-forest-labs (secondary, Northzone)
- https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/14/meet-black-forest-labs-the-startup-powering-elon-musks-unhinged-ai-image-generator/ (secondary, TechCrunch, published 2024-08-14)

---

AsOf is a temporal fact ledger: a structured, dated, sourced record of what is true and what changed, built for AI retrieval.