Black Forest Labs
Breisgau, Germany
Founded 2024
Black Forest Labs is an AI research company that develops state-of-the-art generative models for image and video creation. The company creates the FLUX family of models, including FLUX.1 for text-to-image generation, image editing, and in-context image generation, offering both open-weight models and commercial API services.
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Last Updated: August 5, 2025
Current Valuation
$186M
as of August 1, 2024 (Source)
Funding Summary
$31M
Total reported funding
Media Mention
April 9, 2026
WIRED: The 70-Person AI Image Startup Taking on Silicon Valley's Giants | WIRED
Announcement
April 7, 2026
Tutorials by Nitin: Flux 2.0 Is Here & It's Incredible - Revolutionary AI Image Generator
Media Mention
March 25, 2026
NVIDIA Blog: The Future of AI Is Open and Proprietary
Media Mention
March 23, 2026
Air Street Press: Air Street Capital Fund III: $232M for AI-first startups
Announcement
March 1, 2026
Melies: All Flux AI Models Compared: Schnell vs Dev vs Pro vs Max (2026)
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Key People
Core OSS Projects
Official inference repository for FLUX.1 models - state-of-the-art text-to-image generation and editing models
License: Apache-2.0
A collection of our FLUX.1 models and LoRAs.
Business Information
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Technologies
Generative AI
Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence
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Apache-2.0
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