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Mengwei Ren

@mengweir

Building @PhotaLabs | ex Research Scientist @Adobe. CS PhD from NYU | Generative Models

New York Katılım Ocak 2017
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Mengwei Ren
Mengwei Ren@mengweir·
Photography is deeply personal. It’s about people, relationships, and moments that matter — shaping how we remember the world and the people around us. So excited to finally share what we’ve been working on - a personalized photo generation and editing model designed for your own photography. The idea is simple: your photos should still feel like you - preserving your identity, your expression, your story, while giving you the freedom to shape the image around it, or reimagine it. What excites me most isn’t just the ability to generate something entirely new, but the chance to fix the small, real things — the missed moment, the person who wasn’t there, the expression that didn’t quite land — and finally arrive at the photo you had in your head all along.
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Phota Labs
Phota Labs@PhotaLabs·
We've gotten questions about how Phota works, so we wanted to share more about what we've built. Phota, like many modern AI products, is a system of multiple models, each optimized for a different part of the generation pipeline. Our proprietary model focuses on identity, which enables us to generate and edit photos of real people and pets. For base image generation, Phota uses leading foundation models (both open and closed source - including Nano Banana). On top of those, we've trained our own identity model on both in-house data and user-uploaded photos to preserve identity consistently. That identity layer is the core of Phota's differentiation. Phota has always been built as a multi-model system; we have not presented it as a single foundation model trained end-to-end from scratch. From the beginning, our core research effort has been focused on identity and photography. Phota was built by former Adobe researchers who have spent years working on image models. Our launch this week focused on the product experience and the outputs - but we've also heard the interest in going deeper on the underlying research, and we're excited to share more over time. We invite you to try Phota yourself, and we're eager to hear your feedback.
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Yoko
Yoko@stuffyokodraws·
Obsessed with this use case with AI where you can find a weird cat picture on the internet and replace that with your own cat
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Mengwei Ren
Mengwei Ren@mengweir·
Photography is deeply personal. It’s about people, relationships, and moments that matter — shaping how we remember the world and the people around us. So excited to finally share what we’ve been working on - a personalized photo generation and editing model designed for your own photography. The idea is simple: your photos should still feel like you - preserving your identity, your expression, your story, while giving you the freedom to shape the image around it, or reimagine it. What excites me most isn’t just the ability to generate something entirely new, but the chance to fix the small, real things — the missed moment, the person who wasn’t there, the expression that didn’t quite land — and finally arrive at the photo you had in your head all along.
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Mengwei Ren
Mengwei Ren@mengweir·
Fix the little imperfections, tweak the composition, bring people into your frame, or reimagine the moment entirely — all while still feeling like you. Try Phota Studio today at studio.photalabs.com 📷
Phota Labs@PhotaLabs

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 can: - Reimagine composition, lighting, or posture while still looking like yourself - Create editorial, stylized, and studio-quality portraits of yourself, or bring someone you love into the frame - Revive the blurred shot, bring in the person who missed the group photo, fix the awkward expression - all without losing what made the moment worth keeping With Phota API, you can finally build photo experiences where real people are the core. Marketing assets, editorial shoots, wedding photography: workflows that needed identity fidelity that GenAI couldn't deliver. Until now. Ultimately, we want to make compelling photographs accessible to everyone. Phota API and Phota Studio start to make that possible: empowering people to explore, imagine, and create without losing themselves in the image. With Phota Studio and Phota API, developers can build new photo experiences, while photographers and creators can explore a new kind of AI-native editing and generation. The next photo experience starts here!

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Deblina Bhattacharjee
Deblina Bhattacharjee@deblinaforAI·
@mengweir Let’s grab coffee sometime! Would love to catch up before I head back to the UK :)
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Howard Pinsky
Howard Pinsky@Pinsky·
If Harmonize is going a bit too hard (especially on skin), Blend If and Opacity tweaks can help a lot! ✨
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Howard Pinsky
Howard Pinsky@Pinsky·
This is nuts! Harmonize just landed in the Photoshop beta and compositing will never be the same 🤯
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Adobe Research
Adobe Research@AdobeResearch·
Adobe Labs releases an experimental digital photography app Project Indigo (adobe.ly/43VWAV7) to showcase breakthrough innovations, including reflection removal, which is being published at CVPR this week. Check out this blog: adobe.ly/4kFNFOJ
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Jack Xu
Jack Xu@xuzhe180·
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William Lamkin
William Lamkin@WilliamLamkin·
@mengweir Well done, Mengwei! Project Perfect Blend looks really incredible. Looking forward to harmonizing all my layers
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Mengwei Ren
Mengwei Ren@mengweir·
So much fun at #AdobeMAX sneak! As a researcher, this is so far the biggest stage I have ever stepped on. Turns out it’s easier to interact with 10k+ audiences than with 1 for an introvert :p Grateful for all the applause, energy, and suports!
Howard Pinsky@Pinsky

Excuse me what?! #ProjectPerfectBlend needs to come to Photoshop, like, now! 🤯

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