Max Lapin is a Member of Technical Staff at Reka AI in Berlin, working on pre-training and world models, including Reka's Rho-1 omni model. Max's research focuses on generative models that understand and generate language, images, video, and 3D. Previously, Max was a research scientist at Stability AI working on image and video generation, and spent six years at Amazon as a scientist. Max received a PhD in computer science from Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, advised by Bernt Schiele and Matthias Hein.