Hi, I’m Taehoon Kim.

I left OpenAI in 2020 to go all in on diffusion models. I founded my own startup, got acquired by the fastest growing Korean gaming company, and left this year to jam with a few friends:

You can learn more about my journey here: [taehoon.ai](http://taehoon.aihttp://taehoon.ai/)

Preface

Images + Generative AI today is dominated by Text → Image models trained on readily available internet data. But the next wave of magical consumer experiences will come from conditional models.

Image + Condition → Image data is much harder to source, but we’re solving this scarcity through data engineering. We’re unlocking models and experiences that have not existed yet.

Interested in the topics below?

Let’s chat, my DMs are open.

Taehoon Kim

Research Topics

Diffusion