Black Forest Labs
Frontier AI research company developing FLUX foundation models for image, video, audio, and world-action generation.
September 20261
Sep 23, 2026FLUX 3 Action released with open weightsOpen weights
Black Forest Labs released an open-weight 7B world-action model and reported first place on the RoboLab benchmark.
August 20261
Aug 4, 2026FLUX 3 Video releasedModel release
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Video for HD video generation with native synchronized audio.
July 20261
Jul 23, 2026FLUX 3 enters early accessModel release
Black Forest Labs introduced FLUX 3, a unified multimodal foundation model for images, video, and audio.
June 20261
Jun 18, 2026Black Forest Labs reports 90 employeesEmployee count
CEO Robin Rombach described Black Forest Labs as a 90-person frontier AI lab across Germany and the United States.
January 20261
Jan 15, 2026FLUX.2 [klein] releasedModel release
Black Forest Labs released compact FLUX.2 [klein] models for fast and interactive visual generation.
December 20251
Dec 1, 2025Black Forest Labs Series BFunding round
Black Forest Labs raised a $300 million Series B co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha, taking disclosed total funding above $450 million.
November 20251
Nov 25, 2025FLUX.2 releasedModel release
Black Forest Labs released its second-generation FLUX visual-intelligence model family.
August 20251
Aug 5, 2025FLUX models launch on Azure AI FoundryPartnership
Black Forest Labs and Microsoft made FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] and FLUX1.1 [pro] available through Azure AI Foundry.
June 20251
Jun 26, 2025FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] open weights releasedOpen weights
Black Forest Labs released open weights for the Kontext developer model.
May 20251
May 29, 2025FLUX.1 Kontext releasedModel release
Black Forest Labs released FLUX.1 Kontext for context-aware image generation and editing.
October 20242
Oct 2, 2024BFL API launchedAPI release
Black Forest Labs launched its first-party API for direct access to hosted FLUX models.
Oct 2, 2024FLUX1.1 [pro] releasedModel release
Black Forest Labs released FLUX1.1 [pro] with improved image quality, prompt adherence, and generation speed.
August 20244
Aug 1, 2024FLUX.1 [schnell] open weights releasedOpen weights
Black Forest Labs released the fast FLUX.1 [schnell] model under Apache 2.0.
Aug 1, 2024FLUX.1 [dev] open weights releasedOpen weights
Black Forest Labs released FLUX.1 [dev] weights for non-commercial use.
Aug 1, 2024FLUX.1 [pro] releasedModel release
Black Forest Labs released its hosted flagship 12B FLUX.1 text-to-image model.
Aug 1, 2024Black Forest Labs seed roundFunding round
Black Forest Labs announced a $31 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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