About Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs is an AI research company founded in 2024 by researchers who previously created the original Stable Diffusion and other latent diffusion work, and it develops the FLUX family of image generation and editing models. Its releases have set quality benchmarks for open models: FLUX.1 established the line, and later FLUX.2 combined text-to-image generation and multi-image editing in a single model, shipped in several variants including a large open-weight version, a fast variant for real-time and on-device use, and a hosted professional variant, with the lab moving toward multimodal models that also handle video and audio. Black Forest Labs publishes open weights for much of the family, which has made FLUX a default choice for developers, tools, and researchers building image features, while also offering a hosted API and commercial licensing for the higher-end models and enterprise use. The company raised significant funding and its models are widely integrated across creative apps and platforms. Its open-weight models are free to run and self-host under their licenses, while the API and commercial licenses for the flagship models are paid, priced per generation and by usage tier. Black Forest Labs is based in Germany and Freiburg, and its team has continued publishing model cards and technical details alongside each release, which has made FLUX a common reference point in the open image-model community.
