Christian Laforte

@chrlaf

Chief AI Scientist in a Stealth HW startup. Previously: Stability AI; AMD; Autodesk; CEO of 2 startups (3D + AI). Hanging out on bsky (chrlaf)

Toronto, Canada linkedin.com/in/claforte/ Joined July 2023

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Christian Laforte @chrlaf Sep 2, 2024

I left Stability AI in late July 2024 to join a new stealth HW startup. I want to thank my former Stability AI colleagues for a year and a half filled with exciting challenges, discoveries and technical achievements. I wish them all the best.

Christian Laforte @chrlaf 4d

Leaving @NVIDIAAI wasn't easy but I'm loving it at @MoonlakeAI!
Amazing team, moving fast, tackling problems that seemed like sci-fi when I graduated in 1999.
Our ambition: make robot and world simulation & training orders of magnitude faster, cheaper, impactful.
Exciting time!

Moonlake @moonlake 4d

The RL era of robotics is here, and simulation is how to scale it.

An early look at our research on a achieving a better scaling paradigm for robot learning with simulation 👇

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Christian Laforte @chrlaf Jan 14, 2025

Hi, I'm now available for consulting or full-time. If your team is looking for a tech leader with lots of experience in Generative AI R&D, 3D, GPUs, etc -- or if you're looking for a CEO or CTO for a very early stage startup -- I might be your guy.

Christian Laforte @chrlaf Jan 3, 2025

Thanks Xubo, I wish we had gotten to work longer together… best of luck with your next adventure!

Xubo Liu Verified account @LiuXub Jan 3, 2025

Today is my last day at @StabilityAI . It’s incredible how quickly the past year has flown by! I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to work alongside such talented and inspiring colleagues.

A special thank you to Christian @chrlaf for trusting me to lead the speech research direction as a new graduate. I’m proud of my team and all that we’ve achieved together. (Psst... Stable Codec will be released very very soon!)

I’ll truly miss Stability AI and the amazing team here. Excited to share my next steps with you all soon! ❤️

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Christian Laforte @chrlaf Oct 7, 2024

How much VRAM will you need to run MovieGen? The main text-to-video model has 30B params, and assuming BF8 quantization, that might fit in 2 RTX4090s. To run the rest of the models (text encoders etc) you'll need >=80GB, just for the weights alone: