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Investor Interview: S32 on Black Forest Labs

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CB Insights - Enterprise Ai Title: Investor Interview: S32 on Black Forest Labs Date: 2026-08-03 19:59 Source: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/investor-interview-black-forest-labs/ <h4>Nathan Wu, Partner at <a href="https://app.cbinsights.com/profiles/i/GZ4o?tab=overview">S32</a>, tells CB Insights how they view <a…
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  • Black Forest Labs's work on Flux and the BFL API saw incredible customer love, and Nathan Wu knew it was an incredible team S32 had to be a part of.

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  • The founders of Black Forest Labs first came on Nathan Wu's radar after publishing the Latent Diffusion paper, which could be seen as the transformer paper equivalent for images.

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