Sumith KulalCo-founder · Black Forest LabsResearcher↗DP
Researcher
Dustin Podell
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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Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations9,931As of Jun 15, '26
citations+5,065Since last snapshot, Aug 25, '25
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