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Phota Labs

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Phota Labs

@PhotaLabs

GenAI-powered photo editing tools that preserve your identity.

San Jose, CA

Joined January 2025

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Phota Labs
@PhotaLabs
Mar 26
Today, we introduce Phota Studio and Phota API, powered by our photography model that brings flagship image model capabilities, personalized to you. With personalization, an image model stops being just playful and starts becoming useful for photography. With Phota Studio, you
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Phota Labs
@PhotaLabs
Sep 16, 2025
Introducing Phota Labs: We're building personalized visual GenAI and the next chapter of photography. Because memory-making should be effortless, personal, and compelling for everyone. We're excited to share our $5.6M seed led by @a16z ( @stuffyokodraws ), with @figma Ventures,
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Phota Labs
@PhotaLabs
Sep 19, 2025
!Hiring a technical artist / photographer! 📷 🔮 A rare role at the intersection of photography, GenAI & product. You'll prototype with VLMs, script quick tests, and be the tastemaker 👩‍🍳✨ setting the bar for visual quality. Know someone always behind the camera? Link 👇
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Phota Labs
@PhotaLabs
Sep 16, 2025
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Sign up for early access now at photalabs.com. We’d love to hear your thoughts. And yes, we’re hiring! Come build the next chapter of visual GenAI & Photography with us: jobs.gem.com/photalabs-com
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Phota Labs
@PhotaLabs
Sep 24, 2025
[Phota Notes #1 - Identity] Models (🍌, 🌱) are often said to have "identity preservation", but are we even talking about the same thing? Have they solved it? Do they work on *you*? No. No. And no. A generic model will never really understand you. 🧵
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Phota Labs
@PhotaLabs
Sep 17, 2025
Had some fun and bold conversations around photography and AI. Links 👇 🎙️ Podcast with Ren, @martin_casado and @stuffyokodraws: "Where's the line between AI and photo?", "does that line even matter?", "Will we have a lens?" 📰 Forbes interview, with our favorite wedding story of
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Phota Labs
@PhotaLabs
Sep 16, 2025
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Photos are better shown than told: photalabs.com.
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Phota Labs
@PhotaLabs
Sep 29, 2025
🟢 New Blog: For the First Time, Identity Preservation Works in Your Photos Identity preservation is about generalization, the same way humans recognize people we know across angles, lighting, and time. Any model that claims to preserve identity should be held to that standard.
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Phota Labs
@PhotaLabs
Sep 16, 2025
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One "photographer" is never enough. A moment this special needs more than one pair of eyes.
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Phota Labs
@PhotaLabs
Oct 19, 2025
LOVE it! ⚡
Ivan Makarov
@IvanoMakSF
Oct 18, 2025
Saturday fun. Thanks @PhotaLabs for capturing the feeling of today’s ride
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Phota Labs
@PhotaLabs
Sep 16, 2025
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Remove the grit, reimagine the dynamic range, keep the moment. Even in the dark.
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Phota Labs
@PhotaLabs
Sep 27, 2025
Photos speak to everyone. Building in this space is a gift.
Cecilia Zhang
@ceciliazhang77
Sep 27, 2025
Last night on FaceTime, my mom showed me a photo she loved - Yoko giving me leis at my wedding in Hawaii. But Yoko's eyes were closed. I uploaded it to Phota, within 30 seconds, that memory is fixed. My mom was thrilled, saved the photo to her phone. "Now it's perfect".
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Phota Labs
@PhotaLabs
Sep 29, 2025
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No better way to try it on yourself:
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Phota Labs Beta Signup
We're launching a mobile app and an API. Whether you're capturing personal moments or integrating real, compelling visuals into your product, we'd love to have you try it early and help us shape what...
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Phota Labs
@PhotaLabs
Sep 16, 2025
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Reimagine the moment with better perspective, distance, and lighting. Great moments deserve more than random snapshots.
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