Black Forest Labs just open-sourced FLUX 3 Image Klein, a compact 5.6B parameter model delivering native 4K text-to-image and pixel-perfect editing. Thanks to NVIDIA-optimized INT8 weights, it squeezes onto local GPUs with 8GB memory, making high-end local generation fast and accessible.
Black Forest Labs just launched FLUX 3 Image, introducing bounding-box controls for granular composition and text layout. The model supports up to 10 image references, native 4K rendering, and isolated local edits that let you tweak specific spots repeatedly without degrading the rest of the canvas. It is available via their Playground and API.
Black Forest Labs just released FLUX 3 Action, an open-weight 7B world-action model designed for robotics. It achieves a 42.2% success rate on the RoboLab benchmark, beating Cosmos 3 Nano while using less than half the parameters and running up to 3.95x faster on GPUs. When paired with GPT 6 Astra in a hybrid policy, it cuts cost per successful task by 29% by handling physical execution locally.
Black Forest Labs just launched FLUX Video Upscale, a new standalone tool and API endpoint that regenerates generated video up to native 4K. It fixes flaws like smeared faces and gridded texture artifacts, offering both a fast Precise mode and a detail-heavy Creative mode. Why it matters: it makes raw AI video output clean enough for broadcast and campaign standards without complex post-production.
Black Forest Labs just launched FLUX 3 Video via its API, generating up to 20-second clips at 1080p with native synchronized audio, sound effects, and lip-synced dialogue across 14+ languages. It supports multi-scene camera cuts, keyframing, and an affordable Draft Mode for fast previews. Why it matters: Pairing video generation with native audio and multi-shot continuity brings AI much closer to practical film production.
Black Forest Labs just teamed up with mimic robotics to turn its new FLUX 3 multimodal foundation model into FLUX-mimic, a video-action AI running on robots in Audi factories. By tapping into the physics FLUX learns during video generation, a lightweight decoder translates scene dynamics into physical manipulation in under 80ms on a single RTX 5090.
Black Forest Labs just launched FLUX 3 into early access, a multimodal foundation model that jointly trains on images, video, and audio using its Self-Flow architecture. It generates up to 20-second video clips complete with synchronized native sound and even adapts to robotic action prediction. Open-weight Dev access and standalone image generation are slated to follow in the coming weeks.
Developer eric-venti-seeds just released Sun-Direction-Lora-Flux2Klein9B on Hugging Face, letting creators pinpoint exact sun angles in outdoor generations using a simple 3D reference sphere. The workflow neutralizes original lighting into an overcast plate before casting sunlight from the chosen direction. Why it matters: precise light control has always been painful in diffusion models, and this brings an intuitive visual gizmo to the process.
Black Forest Labs just brought on legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese as an advisor to guide its visual intelligence development with a focus on human craft and taste. The announcement came alongside a working storyboarding session where Scorsese tested its FLUX image generation model.
Black Forest Labs just launched FLUX.2 klein, delivering sub-second image generation and editing on consumer GPUs with only 13GB of VRAM. It comes in an Apache 2.0-licensed 4B version and an open-weights 9B model, available via API, local runtimes, and a free web demo.
Black Forest Labs just launched FLUX.2 [klein], a speedy image generation family claiming sub-second inference that beats rival models by over 30%. It arrives in 4B and 9B variants, with the lightweight 4B edition released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license runnable on 8.4GB of VRAM.
Fal just released FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo, an ultra-fast distilled adapter for Black Forest Labs' flagship image model. Using DMD2 distillation, it slashes inference from 50 steps down to 8, outputting 1024x1024 images in 6.6 seconds for just $0.008. While weights are free on Hugging Face, commercial use requires fal's API under non-commercial terms.
Black Forest Labs just launched FLUX.2 [max], billed as its highest-quality image model yet. It searches the web for real-time context, supports up to 10 reference images to maintain consistent characters and styles, and hit #2 on @ArtificialAnlys for text-to-image and image editing.
Adobe just rolled out a new video editor to all Firefly users, letting creators tweak elements, colors, and camera angles using text prompts instead of regenerating clips from scratch. The update also integrates third-party powerhouses like Black Forest Labs’ FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra for 4K upscaling, with unlimited generations available for select subscribers until January 15.
Black Forest Labs just launched the FLUX.2 visual model family, supporting up to 10 reference images for character consistency, 4MP editing, and legible text rendering. The release includes the open-weight 32B FLUX.2 [dev] alongside pro-grade APIs. Why it matters: High-end creative pipelines just gained unprecedented visual control without being locked into closed ecosystems.
Meta just signed a two-year deal worth $140 million with German startup Black Forest Labs to license its Flux image generation technology. The contract is backloaded, with Meta paying $35 million in year one and $105 million in year two. Why it matters: Following its recent Midjourney pact, Meta is pouring serious cash into leading visual labs to supercharge its creative tools.
NVIDIA just released the FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] NIM microservice, making advanced local image editing much easier on RTX PCs. Quantization slashes the 24GB model down to 7GB for RTX 50 series, while TensorRT delivers over 2x speedups with direct ComfyUI support.
Krea just released open weights for FLUX.1 Krea [dev], an image model built alongside Black Forest Labs designed to ditch the generic "AI look." Fully compatible with the FLUX.1-dev pipeline, it relies on opinionated post-training with fewer than 1M hand-curated samples, ditching waxy textures and artificial blur for authentic, photorealistic aesthetic control.
Black Forest Labs just launched Kontext Komposer and Kontext-powered presets, letting users transform images without typing a single prompt. It handles background swaps, headshot relighting, and product placements. The tool is currently available for free in their playground.
NVIDIA just rolled out TensorRT optimizations for Black Forest Labs' FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] model, bringing over 2x faster image generation and editing to RTX GPUs. Quantization cuts model size down to 12GB for FP8 and 7GB for FP4, allowing creators to run step-by-step visual edits locally without complex workflows.
