Martin Scorsese Joins AI Image Startup Black Forest Labs as Partner and Adviser

The director defends investment in and use of AI-generated storyboards, saying the immediacy of communicating his vision to cast and crew is ‘creatively freeing’ Martin Scorsese’s announcement that he has invested in an AI company and uses the technology to create storyboards has triggered a backlash from fellow members of the film industry. The New York Times reported that Scorsese had been appointed in 2025 as a partner and adviser to Black Forest Labs, a German-based venture that specialises in text-to-image generative AI. Continue reading...

The caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.

In a clear sign of Hollywood’s softening stance on artificial intelligence, the cinema icon is backing Black Forest Labs, an image generation start-up.

Paris-based AI real estate startup Davis has raised €4.6 million in a pre-seed round led by Heartcore Capital and Balderton Capital, with participation from Yellow, Evantic, and Entrepreneurs First, alongside angels from the founding teams of Hugging Face, Black Forest Labs, and Supabase. Founded in 2025 by CEO Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi, Davis combines […]

Black Forest Labs has long punched above its weight in the AI image generation space. Its next move? Powering physical AI.