Patrick Esser (@pess_r) — Twitter Score 19 out of 1000

Patrick Esser is a generative AI researcher who co-founded Black Forest Labs and co-created the Stable Diffusion model series. Patrick Esser's Twitter Score is 19 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #50,585 among 486,860 tracked accounts.

Patrick Esser co-authored the latent-diffusion research that underpins Stable Diffusion and is the first-listed author of the VQGAN paper, "Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis." He previously worked at Runway as a research scientist, where he co-authored Gen-1, a diffusion-based video-synthesis system. He was also formerly affiliated with the Computer Vision and Learning Group (CompVis) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Patrick Esser is the first-listed author of the 2024 ICML paper "Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis," research associated with Black Forest Labs' FLUX models. Black Forest Labs announced a $300 million Series B at a $3.25 billion post-money valuation in December 2025. Patrick Esser has 5,642 followers as of September 2026 and has published 1,152 posts. He has been mentioned by 10 accounts a total of 13 times.

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