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/

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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.
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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.
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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
@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
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:
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Christian Laforte
@chrlaf
Oct 7, 2024
I just listened to the first 3 episodes of @ericries's podcast, the ericriesshow.com ... It's refreshing to hear interviews with entrepreneurs that didn't just get rich but that did it with principles and unequivocally made the world better.
The Eric Ries Show
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