
Sumith KulalResearcher
Black Forest Labs
Co-founder
via Black Forest Labs
Researcher
Podell helped build Stable Diffusion XL, which substantially improved open text-to-image generation, and Stable Video Diffusion. At Black Forest Labs he continues developing the FLUX family, extending diffusion and flow-based models toward controllable visual generation.
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026