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Black Forest Labs

AI research lab developing multimodal visual intelligence models

bfl.ai

Headquarters: Freiburg, Germany
Founded year: 2024
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 140–200
Industry: IT Services & Consulting

Last updated October 1

Latest news about Black Forest Labs

In short: Black Forest Labs raised $300M, launched FLUX 3, expanded into robotics, and appointed Martin Scorsese as advisor.

Company announcements

October 1 Black Forest Labs

Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 Image with advanced control and scaling options

It offers precise pixel-level editing, 4K generation, and multi-turn edits. An open weights version arrives soon, while API access is discounted.

August 4 Black Forest Labs

Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Video with native audio

It supports text/image inputs, multiple key frames, video continuation, native audio, and 1080p up to 20 seconds. Draft previews reduce cost; available via API, with 2K/4K and open weights planned.

July 23 Black Forest Labs

Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 in Early Access

It is a multimodal foundation model that generates video, images, and audio jointly from text or reference inputs.

December 1, 2025 Black Forest Labs

Black Forest Labs raises $300M Series B at $3.25B valuation

Millions use FLUX models, most popular on Hugging Face. Enterprise versions power fal.ai, Replicate, and TogetherAI. Partners include Adobe, Canva, Meta, and Microsoft. Funds accelerate R&D.

Media coverage

October 1 THE DECODER

Black Forest Labs introduces Flux 3 Image: Image generation with multi-stage editing in up to 4K

Black Forest Labs introduces Flux 3 Image, an image generation model that enables multi-stage edits without altering other areas of the image. Users can use bounding boxes...

September 23 VentureBeat

Black Forest Labs debuts FLUX 3 Action, an open-weights AI robotics model that tops the leaderboard at half the size of its competition

The company says it trained task-specific FLUX 3 Action policies to fly drones in real life and even...

August 5 The Decoder

Black Forest Labs makes FLUX 3 Video generally available and claims it beats Seedance 2.0

Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX 3 Video, which generates Full HD clips up to 20 seconds long with native audio and lip-synced dialogue in...

July 23 Usine Digitale

"Generate 20-second videos with audio in a single prompt": German Black Forest Labs reaches a milestone with its Flux 3 model and expands into robotics

The German startup Black Forest Labs unveils Flux 3, a model capable of simultaneously generating images and video/audio sequences of up to...

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