Black Forest Labs
Frontier AI research lab for visual intelligence, developer of the FLUX model family.
Last updated September 15, 2026
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Overview
Black Forest Labs is an AI company and frontier AI research lab for visual intelligence. Its founding team includes pioneers of Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX.1 visual AI. From labs in Freiburg and San Francisco, it builds foundational infrastructure for visual intelligence, and its models power millions of creations worldwide. Its FLUX models are offered via API, open weights, and enterprise licensing.
History
Black Forest Labs is an AI company and a frontier AI research lab for visual intelligence. Its founding team includes pioneers of Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX.1 visual AI. From labs in Freiburg and San Francisco, the company builds foundational infrastructure for visual intelligence, and its models power millions of creations worldwide, from individual artists to enterprise applications.
Products and positioning
Frontier AI research lab for visual intelligence; foundational infrastructure for visual intelligence.
FLUX 3
One multimodal model for image, video, audio, and action-prediction, with native audio and up to 20-second clips in a single generation.
FLUX API
Simple-to-integrate API to access the latest and most powerful FLUX models, built to handle production workloads at any scale.
Open weights
Full model access to run FLUX models on your own infrastructure, with control over deployment, fine-tuning, and customization.
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