Researcher · Founder
Christoph Schuhmann
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Founder and Organisational Lead at LAION
Schuhmann founded LAION, the volunteer-led nonprofit that released LAION-5B, a vast open image-and-text dataset used to train systems including Stable Diffusion. The project made large-scale multimodal training data broadly available outside major companies.
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Founder and Organisational Lead
LAION
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